Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third son Juan, heir-pretender to the Throne, in St. Mary's Basilica to his brunette Italian cousin, Princess Marie-Mercedes of Bourbon-Sicily who sobbed convulsively with streaming eyes during the ceremony. Sympathetic witnesses were that unhappy couple, sad Belgian Princess Marie-Jose and her gay Crown Prince Umberto of Italy. Once dashing Umberto was the hope of antiFascists, was said to have challenged Il Duce to a duel, never gave the stiff-armed, flat-palmed Fascist salute, saluting Army style instead. In the present crisis. Italy's Crown Prince publicly salutes like a Fascist...
Elvira and, Tiberio, his prize-winning canvas (see cut) shows an embarrassed but happy pair of young South American Negroes, all dressed up in their Sunday best and perched primly on the edge of an emerald green sofa. Elvira has a gay wreath of pink poppies around her Dolly Vardon hat. Tiberio's immaculate white linen suit is set off by a magnificent striped shirt...
...Geneva, without Geneva or against Geneva," said the Dictator. "The League of Nations, like the loveliest girl in the world, cannot give more than it has. ... I am in conversation with England. . . . Conflict between our two nations is inconceivable." "Until now the English have considered the Italians as a gay, picturesque and agreeable people," continued II Duce. "It has never come into the English mind until recently that Italy could have a will of her own and a complete independence in regard to England. . . " Since Britain assured Italy officially that her fleet concentration in the Mediterranean is not anti-Italian...
...rate, the Class of 1939 crashes into print with a father who is the "proprietor of a Turkish bath," an institution which we had always connected with the Gay Nineties, but which apparently still flourishes. This sets one Freshman apart from the many sons of "executives in corporations and large business concerns," who have not yet been sufficiently soaked by the tax collector to deprive their sons of a Harvard education. The fervent New Dealer expects that this condition may be on the way to correction next year. So far 101 Freshman sons of this group can still hold their...
...climate, Eleanor Wilson McAdoo formally divorced her Senator in Los Angeles. Though he rated as the Senate's foremost frequenter of night clubs, spry, fun-loving old Senator McAdoo was not one to enjoy single life. Social Washington was fully prepared to see him marry one of the gay young women with whom he often danced at the swank Shoreham Hotel. But it was vastly surprised to learn one day last week that Senator McAdoo, on the eve of the golden anniversary of his first wedding, was about to marry one Doris Cross, 24. Miss Cross had entered Senator...