Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confused pianist: "Piano, piano, don't sprint! Follow the singer!'' She brusquely interrupted arias and duets: "Très pianissimo. . . . But, my dear, you are folle with love for the man! . . . The public-look at your public, there in the galleries too." Then she burst into gay applause: "C'est gentil, ça!" Prowling around, never sitting down, the woman in white went on for three hours, abruptly dismissing one group of singers to call up another, suddenly feigning vexation that the time had passed so quickly...
...Government closed its umbrella, capital would be lost and thousands of workers thrown on Relief. The industry has always outdone itself in keeping its workers employed in slack times for fear of losing what few skilled lace-makers there are in the U. S. And wearing gay lace boutonnieres, 500 of them appeared in Washington to join their employers in protest. Spokesman for lace employees, however, was not a labor leader: but Executive Director Clement J. Driscoll of the American Lace Manufacturers Association. Said...
Last week Stock Exchange President Charles R. Gay, taking his new administrator with him, went to Washington to call on the Securities & Exchange Commission, met Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy for the first time. As if to emphasize his promises of cooperation, President Gay announced that the Stock Exchange was closing its "Washington Embassy," a colonnaded house on aristocratic Tracy Place which onetime President Richard Whitney used as a lobby base to fight passage of the Securities & Exchange...
...instant dismissal. Though Robert is non-sectarian and officially nonproselytizing, the ruling element in the faculty is composed of oldsters rooted in the missionary tradition. But younger facultymen, adventurous college graduates, mostly from the West and Midwest, go out on three-year contracts to see Life. Istanbul has a gay foreign colony and night life...
...head an independent ticket (TIME, April 15). He did, however, consent to become a candidate for one of the ten regular governorships open each year. Many an Exchange liberal was surprised when Broker Whitney polled 1,146 votes for Governor, 15 more than the vote which elected Charles R. Gay to the presidency. Last week Governor Whitney was elected chairman of the Committee on Bonds...