Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five minutes later, accompanied by Exchange President Charles R. Gay, the man the Red flag honored arrived in the private gallery of the Exchange: Soviet Russia's Ambassador to the U. S. Alexander A. Troyanovsky, escorting Soviet People's Commissar for Food Industry Anastas Mikoyan. Capitalists never had a more implacable enemy than Commissar Mikoyan. He is a genuine, bomb-throwing Old Bolshevik, who, with the final Soviet victory, rose to high Communist rank in the Caucasus. Last week he politely drew out President Gay on operations of the Exchange, was surprised to be told that...
...thriving business in cushions for the hard Festspielhaus seats, trade at the Cafe Bazar was rivaled only by that at a tearoom just opened by Count Ludwig Salm, and thousands of Auslander from everywhere were strolling Salzburg streets in Dirndln (peasant waist, skirt & apron) or Lederhosen (leather shorts with gay suspenders) from Joseph Lanz's smart shop...
...grandchildren, is "like an old-fashioned Milwaukee home." In his office. Mr. Annenberg smokes cork-tipped Pall Mall cigarets from a loose pile on his desk, apologizes for his occasional profanity, belies his reputation of being a mean, unsociable skinflint. The Annenberg winter home in Miami Beach is gay, but when Mr. Annenberg goes to "Ranch A" (for Annenberg) in Wyoming he prefers to rest in comparative solitude. Sometimes when guests appear he goes away, leaves them in possession. Last June Republican Mr. Annenberg lent his ranch in absentia to South Dakota's Democratic Governor Tom Berry who gratefully...
...Gay Place. Philadelphia paid $200,000 to get the Convention and a chance to make good as a place of gaiety. Its 2 a. m. curfew law was suspended. In direct violation of State liquor laws, downtown restaurants and hotel bars sold liquor on Sunday. An obliging magistrate stayed open all night within three blocks of Convention Hall to release visitors who forced themselves into the hands of police. True to Democratic tradition, the delegates were a far more boisterous, fiery, tempestuous crowd than Republicans ever were. Two out of every three of them were political officeholders or Party workers...
...Bloomsburg, Pa., for a firemen's convention, John Sukaloski soiled his only suit, sent it to be cleaned, forgot the cleaner's name. Garbed in his landlady's clothing, he went in search of his suit, followed a gay convention parade, was astonished to win a $5 prize as the best female impersonator...