Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from New York to air his views on finances and housemaids, the law school professor saw him late one afternoon in the lobby of the Shoreham. J. P. was standing alone in front of one of the big windows, looking out over snow-covered Rock Creek Park, whistling a gay tune aloud. On his way to the bar our friend stopped for a moment; he thought he had heard the song some place before. He had; it was "I Got Plenty O' Nuttin...
Charlie Chaplin is back, and he brings back with him the gay, mad tempo of the days when movies grinned and didn't chatter. There is the syncopated whirl from one wild gag into the next, slapstick at its subliming, and hands and eyes and faces that talk without torturing your ears and making you supply the gaps. You grasp it all while lolling at your ease. And best of all, you recall the happy days ten years ago when you sneaked out of the back yard at sunset, slapped down your dime on the counter that you could barely...
...racing, speed and figure skating, four kinds of skiing. It is a truism that the Olympics, instituted to promulgate international goodwill, usually promulgate nothing of the sort. Last week, long before any significant results had been recorded, a series of major and minor brawls in sad contrast to the gay opening ceremonies made it clear that, in competitive ill-will, as well as in size, beauty of scene and dignity, the Winter Olympics of 1936 would outclass all their predecessors...
...audience since the days when Chaplin pictures were everyday occurrences, is a problem to be answered by the box office. Judging by its reception in Manhattan last week, Modern Times is likely to find a satisfactory niche in the winter program of U. S. cinema entertainment. It is a gay, impudent and sentimental pantomimic comedy in which even the anachronisms are often as becoming as Charlie Chaplin's cane...
After the funeral, at which his demeanor was temperately described as having been "anything but regal," the Horrible Hohenzollern enjoyed more gay parties, meeting at one of these a pretty lady for whom he bought jewelry next day in Bond Street. Afterward he dined with Foreign Secretary and Mrs. Anthony Eden, then made such a night of it that next morning frantic Rumanian attaches went about bleating . "Our King is lost!" and only found him just in time to rush His Majesty aboard his special boat train. Dover Castle gave him a farewell 21-gun salute as he stepped aboard...