Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resign in favor of a less unpopular guide. The Duke's reply was "Charles, pay no attention to these low accusations. Go right ahead." Trying to obey, Efficiency Expert Bedaux encountered more obstacles. Said he the next afternoon: "Up to 1 o'clock I was very gay. Since then something has happened. . . ." Whether or not the something was a refusal by the State Department to accord royal status to the Duchess of Windsor, Efficiency Expert Bedaux would...
Streamers of colored paper linked ship and pier, bright specks of confetti dotted the air between waving throngs on the dock and the gay crowd on the liner's deck high above them. "Good-by," "Don't let a Jap bomb get you," "Take care of yourself.'' Through milling travelers on deck stewards wove their way, intoning, "All ashore that's going ashore." Ninety passengers aboard the Dollar Line's President Jackson thought last week they were bound on a long voyage from Seattle to the Orient...
...influential characters, though not always the most important, are the members of the powerful banking House of Coleman: flighty, spoiled Dowager Fanny Coleman; her children: square-faced, ruthless Christopher, executive head of the business, who engineers his mother into an asylum; Greg, a notorious playboy; Corinne, sexually inhibited divorcee; Gay, a liberal professor at Columbia University. Considering each of the Colemans as a main stream of his story, Author Rice feeds into them as many tributaries as he can trace down. Thus Christopher's story is fed by his beautiful artists' model, his frigid, hypochondriac wife, his board...
Yarders: G. C. Burton, R. B. Fellows, W. Gay, A. Jaretski, R. J. Kornfeld, W. R. Murphey, W. H. Savage, G. G. Thiem, P. J. Woodman, O. Gates, J. E. Eldredge...
...houseboy, the free-for-all that follows Mr. Smith's canine persistence in playing go-find with two shriekingly circumstantial derby hats in Lucy's apartment. From this climax, when all Lucy's indiscretions are aired for the helpless mischances they really are, the rest is gay downgrade. Lucy commits delirious gaucheries in a Park Avenue drawing room to free Jerry from an entangling alliance, contrives a sprightly midnight reconciliation that must have given the Hays office a bad ten minutes...