Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Grim days for Mr. Ickes were gay days for Dr. Tugwell. The Columbia economist's hair, greying when he went to Washington, has now turned definitely silver but the lines of care which go with such a change are strikingly missing from his handsome, young face. Last week the Tugwell eyes were shining more brightly than ever at the prospect of a golden opportunity...
...last five years the name of Richard Whitney has headed the official slate, and his nomination has never been seriously opposed. But Wall Street dopesters were convinced last week that the nominating committee will not name President Whitney for a sixth term. Its choice will apparently be Charles R. Gay, senior partner of Whitehouse & Co., oldest firm on the Exchange (founded 1828). And what had turned the Floor into a hustings was the prospect that President Whitney would break all precedent by running for re-election on an independent ticket...
...loud, rough, profane. He still is, by nature, but nowadays as he passes through the corridors of the Senate Office Building, he tries to be charming and affable to all comers. He used to run around to his quota of parties, but nowadays he has little time for such gay amusement. Though he has not yet become a teetotaler, he is no longer the Huey Long of the Sands Point washroom. This change is not reform; it is ambition, guided by a keen sense of self-advantage. Senator Long may have his faults and flaws but he does not neglect...
...pictures at the Bignou Gallery were excellent examples of the two styles by which most citizens remember Renoir. La Famille Henriot, painted about 1871, is a gay, sharply drawn canvas of a gentleman and two ladies seated in the dappled shade of a pear tree with two engaging poodles. Judgment of Paris, a swirling study in the pinks, reds, yellows of Paris (in a nightcap) and three rotund nudes, was painted in 1908 when Renoir was already an old man, deeply absorbed in the technique of broken color painting and already wracked with arthritis. The Durand-Ruel pictures were...
...Live Tonight (Columbia). A gay bachelor (Tullio Carminati) sings a waltz to a young girl (Lilian Harvey) whom he picked up in the Casino, took aboard his yacht. Fearing he loves her honestly, he sails away alone without telling her why. When he returns, the girl has agreed to marry his brother. Clearing the matter up takes much dialog and some music. Best shot: the final one, in which the heroine hears the theme song, "Love Passes By," played by a hurdy-gurdy, tooted on an automobile horn, sung by a beautician, a gardener and Carminati...