Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brown, Reginald Boardman, W. H. Bowen, W. H. Caunt, B. G. Clark, C. H. Cretzmeyer, L. L. Davis, W. N. Dearborn, P. K. Doyle, John Dwinell, F. W. Edlin, G. E. Filion, L. S. Fiaherty, A. McG. Foster, V. W. Foster, F. D. Gardner, J. H. Gardiner, John Gay, A. S. Geismer, S. R. Gifford, W. A. Gosline, I. J. Graff...
...White House newshawks the President last week gave a gay dance at which his Daughter Anna and his new ex-newshawk Son-in-Law John Boettiger, his ex-Daughter-in-Law Elizabeth Donner Roosevelt and his Son James were present...
...Seagram. Horses owned by the late Joseph Seagram and his son Edward Frowde Seagram, whose stables are not far from his mash vats at Waterloo, Ontario, had won the King's Plate 19 times before. Last week, paunchy little Distiller Seagram, dressed in a funereal overcoat, a gay, grey topper, watched his horses win the first and third races on the program before his black and yellow silks were carried to the post for the King's Plate by two fillies named Sally Fuller and Gay Sympathy. A few minutes later, when Sally Fuller had won by three...
Same day at Southampton another group of people boarded another ship, which in her day had also been a Queen of the Seas. As they gathered round a long table under the dome of the main lounge, they were anything but gay. Most of them were solemn-faced businessmen in sack suits; a few were middle-aged women in fur coats. Like those on the Normandie, they had come for sentimental reasons-to bid for the fittings of R.M.S. Mauretania before that old & honorable ship should make her final journey to the shipbreakers' yards...
...Growers & Dealers Association of North America puzzled over the decline in oyster eating: U.S. oyster consumption has dropped in 25 years from 230,000,000 lb. annually to 60,000,000 lb. In St. Louis members of the Associated Stock Exchanges heard the first public speech of Charles R. Gay, new president of the New York Stock Exchange. Mr. Gay pleaded for a better understanding of his institution's functions, promised co-operation with SEC. Illinois bankers gathered at Decatur to deplore the Administration's Banking Bill, and New Jersey bankers met at Atlantic City...