Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...distilling whiskey. Vitamin distillation has been practical only in recent years, has not yet been completely commercialized. Last week, at scientific meetings in Ithaca, Manhattan and Washington, Dr. Kenneth Claude Devereux Hickman of Eastman Kodak laboratories, Rochester, N. Y.-a British bachelor of 41 who likes to give gay cocktail parties, and happens to be more responsible than any other chemist for developing the technique of vitamin distillation-described the results which he and his co-workers have obtained in this new field...
Advocating a tournament for Freshmen in the spring, the magazine reports an assault on the ladder boards in the Union by a "certain gay young gentleman on the evening of the Freshman dance...
...with dressing rooms and showers for 50, a dance floor 20 ft. by 60 ft. raised three feet above the deck and lighted from below. The whole top deck between bridge and forward funnel, will become a "Beach Club" 150 ft. by 50 ft., with railside refreshment tables under gay umbrellas, surrounding pool and dance floor...
When President Gay made his original assault on SEC trading strictures, the Commission's chairman was James M. Landis. An amiable watchdog, he made only a partial retort, resigned to become dean of Harvard Law School (TIME, Sept. 27). For not replying in full, the SEC came in for considerable criticism from New Dealers. So when the SEC fell to Chairman William Orville Douglas, he began negotiating with the Stock Exchange for a letter to be written by President Gay explaining that the Exchange had no knife sharpened for the SEC and reviewing the Exchange's own plans...
After Wall Street had sizzled for a week at these cracks and all their implied threats, President Gay unburdened himself of a polite but very generalized reply. Excerpt: "I do not contend that the recent decline in market prices is to be attributed to the condition of the market to which I called attention, or indeed to any single cause. I would be less than candid, however, if I failed to say that recent market developments have confirmed my belief that in the interests of the public and the investor the question of what are wise restrictions upon the scope...