Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years, President Gay of the New York Market and other financial leaders have been hammering away at the surtaxes as a "potent secondary cause of stock market inflation." In a period when all tax methodology is being reexamined, it would seem imperative in the interests of stability, to repeat the capital gains taxes, and thus remove one more potential factor in a fatal inflationary move...
...capitalist, his very spoiled niece, a charming hostess, the inevitable handsome playboy, and an assortment of gangsters. Young Jane Withers brings up the rear in a companion piece, a screen adaption of Tarkington's "Gentle Julia," which informs the fans for the current year that the nineties were gay and that true love conquers...
...intermission hundreds of Detroiters rushed into the lobby, glad to pay for some guide to its meaning. The second act spoke more eloquently for itself. Scene was the village square on the day of the marriage ceremonies. All the ghetto rabble was there, begging for alms, food, drink. One gay interlude came when a ragged peasant orchestra evoked a reedy little tune from the big band in the pit. Thereafter the tension grew grimmer. The beggars danced madly while Leah swept in to whirl despairingly with a groveling hunchback, a hideous, pawing old crone. Rocca's orchestra reached...
...Development of Modern Social and Economic Institutions: Edwin F. Gay, History of the Industrial Revolution in England and its Diffusion; Gerald S. Graham, British North America within the Navigation System, 1783-1820; Wilbur K. Jordan, The Development of Religious Toleration in England; Robert K. Lamb, The Economic Development of Fall River from 1813 to the Present Day; William L. Langer, The Social and Intellectual Aspects of European History, 1832-52; Robert K. Merton, The Inter-relation of Science, Technology and Society in 17th Century England; and Abbott P. Usher, The Early History of Banking...
...number of Vu, weekly Parisian picture-paper. In its April 1 issue, Vu had devoted a full page to an account of the sextuplets' fabulous birth, pictured the six bouncing boys, told how Nestlé's milk had made them grow. When the last child was born, gay Mme Vicogne was reported to have said: "Let's call him 'Jean-Ai-Assez.' [I've had enough]." This number of Vu also offered a page of photographs of some extraordinary animals. There was a cow-pigeon, a sheep-duck, a zebra headed like a rhinoceros...