Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tremont Plaza--A gay Bohemian spot in the theatre district. Harvards are given special attention. Food that pleases the palate, music that tickles the joes...
Professor Hocking did not say at which period in our history we became a gay instead of a solemn people. That would be interesting to know. But it is hard to see why Professor Hocking thinks the change was for the worse. The nations with the greatest capacity for nonchalance are the ones best off today...
...those days, it was all quite romantic; but in those days, we did not have radios; and people who emitted sour notes were not classified as crooners. We just laughed at them, and they faded out. The "Gay Nineties" had their points...
...Here all week in squirely fashion he entertained such notables as Winfield and Maria Jeritza Sheehan; Joseph E. Davies and Mrs. Marjorie Post Hutton Davies; Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney; Secretary Wallace; Edward A. O'Neal of the Farm Bureau Federation; John G. Winant of the Social Security Board; Charles Gay of the New York Stock Exchange; Major General John F. O'Ryan; Under Secretary of the Interior Charles West; Mayor LaGuardia and Bishop Francis J. McConnell of New York City. Among them too was Alpha R. Whiton, Democratic chairman of Putnam County who by personal request is making...
...advertise or not to advertise: that question has disturbed the inner calm of the New York Stock Exchange ever since the nation's first market place began to feel the Depression impact of public hostility. Even after a revolt of the membership boosted Charles R. Gay into presidency of the Exchange on what was supposed to be a New Deal platform, the idea of advertising remained unpalatable to the Governors. It was quite proper that President Gay should stump from coast-to-coast in an effort to "educate" the public. But to do it with the written word, bought...