Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went by gaily-he spent it just with me. Joseph Vissarionovitch joked a lot and was gay and happy...
Herbert Marshall achieves perhaps the most moving performance in his portrayal of a generous and sacrificing friend, Frederic March, so wooden in Anna Karenina, makes something of a comeback as a gay young officer who goes blind in the war. In fact one of the bleakest scenes in months is where he's sitting around, blind and hopeless, trying to be nice to some stupid children. He puts across his various moods of hope and black despair with a reality and depth of feeling that Mr. March's audiences are not always treated...
...Washington, in closest touch with his Department of State and with the foreign embassies. At a time when the world is rumbling with a multitude of threats of war and passions are reaching a new high, President Roosevelt is displaying a nonchalance which goes way back to those gay, expectant days when he was Governor of New York. Mr. Roosevelt is doing the fishing; Mr. Hull is doing the frying...
...even with SEC as a "policeman whose business it is to watch out for pyromaniacs," Mr. Gay did not have full faith in the new Federal fire department. "Will it. perhaps, break down in the hurly-burly of actual practice?" he asked. ''None of us can have forgotten that the Federal Reserve System ... the embodiment of the best banking thought and experience in the world, did not check the great inflation which culminated in 1929. . . ." And he broadly hinted that the weakest spot in the credit hose was the Treasury with its huge stabilization fund and its moral...
...stockmarket promptly passed judgment on its president's speech by darting upward. Wall Street funsters called it the beginnings of the "Great Gay Market...