Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Keith's Memorial, shows maestro Fred Astaire once again flinging his hoofs about with wild and graceful abandon. Unlike "Roberts," "Top Hat" is not a fashion parade, but concerns itself with a typical Fred Astaire pursult of a coy and suspicious Ginger Rogers, in the style of the "Gay Divorces...
This new comedy is light and gay, largely due to directorial skill and the presence of Fred Astaire's amazing feet. Irving Berlin's music is full of rhythm and melody. Although the "Piecolino" is not a real successor to the "continental," as the blurbs assert, several tunes, notably "Dancing Cheek to Cheek," and "Top Hat," will be favorites for a long time...
...break their word. Later Carl Raswan learned to understand why Bedouins' promises and the unwritten laws of their social code were so rigidly upheld: "Without these rules of the game, indeed, all human life in nomad Arabia would have become extinct." The love of Faris and Tuema was gay, poetic, eloquent and chaste. To Faris the girl was "as shy as a gazelle fawn." He cried out: "I shall never be at peace until the slender blossom bends before the storm of my love." Awed and impressed by such tempestuous passion, Carl Raswan received the confidences of the lovers...
...characters than his. Taking a broad view of the mental and moral infirmities that outraged the Victorians, Authors Sitwell and Barton discover that George possessed one distinction to which Thackeray attached little importance. He was one of the few English kings who was also a patron of the arts. Gay and entertaining, with considerable taste in painting and architecture, he was principally responsible for the creation of Brighton as a superb pleasure resort...
When he arrived in Amsterdam, the young painter was a burly bachelor with a gay, stubborn face, a sociable manner. One of his first jobs was The Anatomy Lesson, for Dr. Tulp, an impressively theatrical work. He promptly became Amsterdam's most popular and richest painter. His portraits of that time were, comparatively, the emptiest he ever did. He spent money hand over fist, on tapes tries and brocades, on good living and on the paintings of his contemporaries. He frequently opened the bidding with a price three times what any Dutch burgher ever paid for a picture...