Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chaperoned by her "Aunt Bessie," Mrs. D. Buchanan Merryman of Washington, D. C., during the first year of attentions paid to her by Edward of Wales (TIME, Sept. 24, 1934). Last week it appeared wise for the chaperonage of Mrs. Merryman to be resumed and grey-haired but gay Aunt Bessie rushed to England on the Queen Mary carrying the gun-metal bag she was given by H. R. H. during her previous chaperonage...
That such a worthy painter should not receive his due recognition evoked an angry reply from Stuart D. Preston, Class of 1906. "Shades of the Gay Nineties," he begins, "those murals in the breakfast room of Randolph are the work of Edward Penfield, one of the best known artists...
...Neal. The career of this strong-minded young man is this essence of the picture: her service as inn-keeper's daughter rendered to Andrew Jackson and his Rachel, and to the brilliant states rights squabblers, Danial Webster and John Randolph of Virginia; her brief marriage to an excessively gay sailor; her having to spurn the adored John Randolph because he subscribes to the wrong view, her serving Andrew Jackson as the wife of his nondescript Secretary of War, and her implication in scandal as the result of her midnight dash to the deathbed of the aforesaid Mr. Randolph...
...Connor; his preacher publicist, Stanley High; his Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr.; his frequent campaign companions, Judge & Mrs. Samuel I. Rosenman; his yachting friend, Vincent Astor; his uncle, Frederic A. Delano; his bright young Brain Trust lawyer, Tom Corcoran, with a broad Irish smile, who made the evening so gay with his accordion that Basso Marvin Mclntyre burst into song. Among them circulated Mrs. Roosevelt in a white satin evening gown and Mother Sarah Delano Roosevelt, thoroughly enjoying the sweet cider...
Thus last week the two Nominees for the Presidency passed, one on his way to the White House, the other headed in the opposite direction. One train was as gay as a showboat, full of confident political advisers, competent secretaries, pretty young women and Franklin Delano Roosevelt setting everyone a merry pace. The other train, by comparison, was grim and dour, filled with advisers troubled about where the money was coming from, aides worrying over campaign details that went askew, reporters grumping over their accommodations. Only man aboard the David Livingstone special whose morale was tiptop was Alfred Mossman Landon...