Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rest of the show was the smell of tanbark, a display of gay bandanas, a pounding of hoofs, a whooping of cowhands and a continuous schedule of feats of skill and vigor. Among them: an exhibition of trick-roping by 44-year-old Chester Brers who learned some of his stunts from Will Rogers and has been No. 1 U. S. trick-roper so long (20 years) that no competitors were entered against him last week; cowboys trying to throw light Mexican steers, to ride huge, humped, 1,250-lb. Brahma steers,* to rope and hold wild cows long enough...
...that isn't all he saw. Later in the day he spotted another delivery truck, this time parked outside an undertaker's establishment. Inscribed in gay letters upon its side was "Tatler's High Class Tripe...
...winner, but Jockey Donoghue did not become a familiar figure to British enthusiasts until he won the Cambridgeshire at Newmarket three years later. In 1915 he was entrusted with a Derby favorite. S. Joel's Pommern, and won-a performance he repeated two years later with Gay Crusader. In 1921 Jockey Donoghue became a British hero when he brought in his third Derby winner, the 6-to-1 shot Humorist, who dropped dead from heart failure six weeks after the race. The following year, when his mount, Lord Woolavington's big Captain Cuttle, showed up lame just before...
Wall Street felt last week the Government's power should be used to ease restrictions on trading in order to provide market liquidity as requested last month by President Charles Richard Gay of the Stock Exchange. Screwing up his face as though his remarks were very distasteful to him, Securities & Exchange Commission Chairman James McCauley Landis, as he retired to become Dean of Harvard Law School,* last week finally replied to President Gay...
...speculators'' who "know that Wall Street is bounded on the east by Long Island but forget that it is bounded on the west by the U. S.," the retiring SEChairman ended by asserting that market "cushion" is provided by odd-lot trading. To these waspish remarks President Gay made answer in words that settled nothing: "With all deference to Mr. Landis, for whom I have the highest respect, I see no reason to change my views...