Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...batting orders: HARVARD ST. MARK'S McTernen, cf. 2b., Thomas Darling, l.f. l.f., Dilworth Owen, 2b. 3b., Whitlock Bilodeau, s.s. s.s., deRham Regan, 3b. c.f., Tyler Macintosh, r.f. 1b., Davis Carr, 1b. r.f., Fearon Kessler or Blackwood, c. c., Foster Baxter or Avon. p. p., Gay...
...recently went hence in search of those greener pastures that lie beyond the ranges. He has watched, and seen, and observed, and noted many things on his quest the which he wishes to place before his audience this gay spring morning...
...House of Rothschild is an historical picture in the grand manner, conducted with splendid energy and style. "Dignity" is what old Mayer Amschel Rothschild advises his sons to acquire. The picture, like Nathan Rothschild, is dignified without being stupid. As squealing little Julie Rothschild, Loretta Young manages to be gay without appearing to have stepped into pro-Victorian England out of a Ziegfeld chorus. C. Aubrey Smith is excellent as Wellington. As old Mrs. Mayer Amschel Rothschild, who gets the wittiest lines Nunnally Johnson was able to pack into his script, Helen Westley is superb. Called upon to explain...
...Time stumbles on." shouted Raymond Knight, a National Broadcasting Company announcer who mastered the ceremonies from a grandtier box. He had written a comical libretto called "A Half Century of Progress." Lily Pons was the Metropolitan in infancy. Ponselle's bicycle act was for the gay '90's. An important debut was remembered for 1906 and white-haired Geraldine Farrar bowed from the audience. Then Tenor Melchior appeared as the 1907 Salome, did the Dance of the Seven Veils to show why the Metropolitan's directors objected...
...Wolsey, if she were as religious as I she would 'a' seen it herself!'" Don Marquis makes the bawdy, likeable, blundering king whose amours changed the history of Europe, a human and understandable figure. And the style has the same joyous satirical fillip that made Mohitabel America's favorite gay lady...