Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made of rubber ping-pong bats, a mummified cow, a supine rubber woman painted to resemble the keyboard of a piano. Whatever this may mean as art, the exhibitors did not dilly-Dali over it. Into the tank they plunged living girls, nude to the waist and wearing little Gay Nineties girdles and fishnet stockings. Swimming, grimacing, doing the Suzy Q, milking the cow, playing the "piano," these Lady Godivers, seen at close range and a trifle water-magnified, should win more converts to surrealism than a dozen highbrow exhibitions...
When young Dr. Freud, fresh from five years' research on the nervous system, returned to his native Vienna and with high hopes hung out his shingle, the gay city was thronged with neurotics, "who hurried, with their troubles unsolved, from one physician to another." Some were afraid of animals; others constantly washed their hands, stammered, endured blinding headaches, lingering illnesses, or even developed strange paralyses of the arms and legs. All balanced precariously on the slender line between sanity and insanity. That the cause of their maladies was psychological, the 30-year-old psychiatrist was certain. But how these...
...last times together, the begowned seniors do not want to hear pearly phrases about traditions and sonorous sentences about ambitions and goals. As they march past the trees and brick, mellowed by the shadows of the hour, they are properly filled with a feeling at once gay and quiet-a feeling that has its emotion in the moment not in the past...
Invitation to Happiness, by the six-year-old writer-director combination of Claude Binyon and Wesley Ruggles, is not exactly up Cinemactress Dunne's gay alley, but it is a setup for headstrong Cinemactor MacMurray, a field day for Character Actors William Collier Sr. and Charles Ruggles, Wesley's brother...
...Corey with five goals was the chief reason for the Eli victory Saturday, but Gay Dillingham's three markers kept Harvard in the thick of the fight most...