Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With the gay little "Admirals' March" nine Cabinet members one after another were piped over the side of the cruiser Indianapolis docked at a Manhattan pier early one morning last week. Then everybody fidgeted, waiting for President Roosevelt. Finally after 15 minutes he drove up in a touring car whose narrow tonneau he, his full-sized wife and New York's roly-poly mayor LaGuardia more than filled. The ship's band played "The Star Spangled Banner" and the President rode down the Hudson through the narrows and out of New York Harbor for his first review...
Lovely Queenie Smith, whose twinkling legs and gay little voice used to give her admirers much pleasure in musicomedies (Tip Toes), has recently taken to straight comedy. She has been touring in Every Thursday, does herself an injustice by bringing this unworthy comedy to Broadway. Queenie Smith's husband, Robert Garland, theatre critic for the World-Telegram, refrained from reviewing his wife's play. In his stead, second-string Critic William Boehnel praised the actress, deplored her vehicle...
...Last week, haying titillated the classes for some ten years. Storekeeper Redman went downtown to see if he could excite the masses as managing director of Saks 34th Street. Back in Manhattan last week after a six-month trip around the world was Bernard E. ("Ben") Smith, gay, hard-bitten speculator whose low opinion of high-priced stocks was an early Depression legend. Reports quickly spread that Ben Smith was buying this or selling that, but it was soon learned that Ben Smith had acquired a new interest on his junket. In India he had learned much about shellac...
...their home so it will intimate touch. Crowds fill the streets, door-checkers and bouncers abound for the purpose of keeping it exclusive; orchids and orchestras line the balcony; and the debutante and her parents, arrayed by Mr. Patou, greet some dismal but socially presentable friends. Beneath all this gay exterior a tragedy is taking place. The young musician, not realizing what he has done to the debutante, leaves her to marry the socialite, Jimmy Weaver, the third. Quite a noble conception...
Admiral and Mrs. Henry H. Hough, Commander and Mrs. H. G. Patrick, Commander and Mrs. R. C. Williams, Commander and Mrs. E. W. Hansen, Commander and Mrs. R. S. Wentworth, Commander and Mrs. C. S. Alden, and Captain and Mrs. J. B. Gay will represent the naval department in the receiving line...