Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bishop of Bradford had just uttered the fatal words about His Majesty's lack of church-going which brought Mrs. Simpson into British newspapers as the King's intended wife and occasioned His Majesty's abdication ten days later. Cousin Newbold found Cousin Wallis "still as gay, still as witty, but now she smiles more often than she laughs . . . diamonds and rubies . . . two orchids . . . bruised and sick at heart . . . ripened and matured. . . . She is 39 years old, other reports to the contrary. . . . She hates cats and flying and sham and winter sports (although she has tried them...
...might sound to most laymen, caused many an old eyebrow to rise in Wall Street last week. For one of the New York Stock Exchange's oldest and most honored traditions is official silence on the state of the market. And the speaker was forthright Charles Richard Gay, the Exchange's "New Deal" president, talking to an Associated Press reporter...
...only an able painter but manages to imbue Rayograph pictures of bits of wire, corks and lumps of sugar with exactly the eerie quality that surrealists desire. Least concerned with sexual symbolism and one of the most commercially successful of surrealists is genteel, dapper Pierre Roy, whose gay arrangements of bright ribbons, bits of seashells, sticks and empty wine glasses have long charmed socialites, advertising art directors and smartchart editors. But surrealism would never have attracted its present attention in the U. S. were it not for a handsome 32-year-old Catalan with a soft voice and a clipped...
...gong brought trading to an end on the New York Stock Exchange one afternoon last week a group of men stepped forth upon the rostrum high over the paper-littered floor. One member of the group was Exchange President Charles Richard Gay, another Alfred Emanuel Smith, who was there to make a plea for New York's United Hospital Fund. Clerks were still yelling, messengers scurrying, tickers clacking. When Mr. Smith was introduced to the brokers even the sound-amplifying system could scarcely be heard above...
...Louder!" cried the floor brokers, most of whom had not the faintest idea why Al Smith had decided to pay them a visit. President Gay then made a welcoming speech but that, too, was lost in the Exchange's vasty spaces. "Louder! Louder!" shouted the brokers as Mr. Smith began to ask for hospital contributions. Desperate, officials ordered all Exchange machinery stopped for the duration of the Smith remarks. "This is the last place to explain that in the past six years we have been passing through a world-wide depression," rumbled the once Happy Warrior...