Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public affairs," fibbed Her Majesty's suave Grand Chamberlain. "She is interested only in her home and children." Especially confidential letters from His Majesty are typewritten by Her Majesty and together they edit an Abyssinian newspaper, once commended by the London Times for a "powerful article against gay night life...
While Portuguese from, the back country, in their large-brimmed felt hats, leaning on their quarterstaves, toiled up the Lisbon terraces through the gay Lisbon streets to celebrate the great day, Dictator General Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona last week gave Portugal its first nibble at parliamentary government since he set up his self-styled "Dictatorship without a Dictator" in 1926. Instead of the oldtime Chamber of Deputies, an elected National Assembly met last week; and instead of a Senate, a Corporative Council appointed by Carmona who is very much a Dictator. With this blend of Fascism and Democracy...
...matter how gay the canvases, they paled beside the personality of the painter. Still unknown to the general public, Oscar Florianus Bluemner has been a pet of the U. S. art world for 25 years. His friends jammed the gallery last week. Fellow artists, retired critics, dealers, fell over each other in their eagerness to tell newshawks about his cat Jochen, his accent, his cigars, his career as portraitist, architect, bartender, philosopher...
...anyone familiar with Soviet trials the document offered as Assassin Nicolaev's confession bore earmarks of labored composition by the Gay-pay-oo. It confessed that an unspecified foreign consul† gave Nicolaev 5,000 rubles and offered to put him in touch with Great Red Exile Leon Trotsky. "From Capitalistic darkness," editorialized the official newsorgan Pravda, "comes the stench which Kirov's murderers breathed!" According to Pravda, the leaders of the Trotsky faction accused in the case are "prostituted scoundrels, arrant blackguards, cowards, traitors, bankrupt politicians, deserters, outcasts of the human race and thrice accursed...
Tossing off their last highball, the gay sportsmen mounted the coach and dashed up Fifth Avenue. The entire distance to Newport was covered at a full gallop, Mr. William Goadby Loew tooling the coach most of the way. Horses were changed 21 times, which meant the use of no less than 84 beasts in all. Not since Oliver Gould Jennings (who was also in the party) tooled 406 miles to Shelburne, Vt. in the 1890's had there been such a record-breaking coaching...