Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is only one type of role as far as the star of "Rain" is concerned, and that is light comedy, such as "Something Gay." "I love to hear the audience laugh. That is the best applause of all. In a serious drama I never feel that the audience is relaxed, and so I am always strained and tense myself. In light roles I'm always perfectly at ease...
...Pope, l.f., 3 0 1 1 0 0 Roberts, ss. 4 0 0 1 2 1 Doyle, rf. 4 1 1 1 0 0 Stone, p. 0 0 0 0 1 0 *Lee 1 0 0 0 0 0 Ross, P. 1 0 0 0 1 1 Gay, P. 1 0 0 1 1 0 Totals 27 4 5 21 12 5 *Batted for Stone in the third. Newton High School ab r h po a e Bosworth, cf., p. 3 1 1 0 0 0 Spillman, ss. 3 0 1 2 1 1 Sastodi...
...pleased to accept a place on their official slate as a candidate for one of the ten regular governorships open each year. And with Mr. Whitney out of the race the next president of the New York Stock Exchange will be the nominating committee's choice-Charles R. Gay. head of the oldest house on the Floor, Whitehouse & Co. On him will devolve the problem of reselling the stockmarket to the U. S. public, whose waning patronage sent the price of Exchange seats last week down to $65,000, lowest since...
...friends last week were openly campaigning, and the odds were 3-to-1 in his favor, regardless of what the nominating committee might do. Pro-Whitney brokers passed out petition cards directed to the nominating committee and needing only a member's signature. "Tammany Tactics!" cried pro-Gay brokers. The plebeian New York Evening Journal even mailed out to all Stock Exchange members straw ballots which so alarmed the nominating committee that it dispatched a plea over the ticker requesting members to refrain from any & all unofficial voting. And from his chambers New York Supreme Court Justice Ferdinand Pecora...
Candidate Gay's only move was to release a dignified statement, promising unqualified support to any member picked by the nominating committee. Probably without the slightest intention he thus put President Whitney in the position of being a "bolter." Tall, thickset, bespectacled Broker Gay has a background as different from Broker Whitney's as Manhattan is from Brooklyn, where Mr. Gay was born and still lives. ("Although," he says, "some people can't understand why.") Long before Mr. Whitney was ready for Groton, Mr. Gay was clerking in a drygoods house. Later he went into insurance, then...