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Word: gay (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fooled by the electric lights outside the University this week: Ginger Rogers is definitely not a six day bike racer. Instead she always her for so effectively with Fred Astaire in "The Gay Divorcee." Fred's twinking toes do credit, in this performance, to his international reputation it is rather a shame, however, that the audience cannot be spared the antics of Alice Gracie Allen Brady and Everett Horton which come in between dances...

Author: By S. W. H., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

...summary: HARVARD M.I.T. Lavieties. Boys. v.f. l.g. Demio, Prentz, Keneizuz White, Erngi, Stephenson, l.f. r.g, O'Brien, Waitezth, Morgan, Denton, GRay, Spring, Morse. c. c.Smith, Gay, Kollnittes, Comfort, v.g. Gray, Spring, Morse, c. c., Smith, Gay Kollinites, Comfort, r.g. l.f. Gay, Simpson, O'Brien Fletcher, Moser, l.g. r.f., Garth, Weppler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY HOOPMEN WIN FROM ENGINEERS, 45-12 | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

HARVARD M.I.T. White, r.f. l.f., Garth Lavietes, l.f. r.f., O'Brien Gray, c. c., Smith Fletcher, r.g. l.g., Demo Tittman, l.g. r.g., Gay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FESLER'S TEAM TO FACE M.I.T. CAGERS TONIGHT | 12/8/1934 | See Source »

There are other aspects of the gay nineties or frivolous eighties than those depicted by Mae West. In "Judge Priest," we see a small southern town, actually, Paducah, Kentucky fifteen or twenty years after the Civil War. They are clearly defined. There is the villain, a golden-tongued, politician. There are the heroes (1) Judge Priest, (2) Ellie May's ex-convict father, (3) Jerome Priest (young love interest). There are minor villains and a heroine and of course a supporting cast of half heroes. For most people, though, whether they are southerners or not, the best performance is that...

Author: By S. M. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/7/1934 | See Source »

...music is by Cole Porter, who has been writing hits ever since he composed "Bulldog, Bulldog, Eli Yale" 21 years ago. His score for Anything Goes, while it does not include a melody as sensational as his "Night & Day" for last year's Gay Divorce, is as good as the best any of his peers are turning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 3, 1934 | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

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