Word: gay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coated propaganda also pervaded the Saturday night dances regularly held in a Yenan apple orchard at which Mao appeared in simple peasant dress to dance with his wife, Mme. Chu Teh, Mme. Chou Enlai, or pretty Communist office girls. For these occasions, the Communists revived (and revised) an old, gay Chinese dance form called the Yang-ko. Sample: a shepherd is asleep by his flock. A girl in flowing robes enters, dances around him, and wakes him by provocatively brushing the hem of her gown over his face. In the old version, a flirtation then began. In the Red version...
With printing and the late Renaissance, manuscript-making entered its long decline. The last book in the show was a 17th Century Calligraphic Specimen, a prayer bedecked with gay flourishes and signed by one Friar Didace of Paris, self-described as "a poor little Capuchin, very unworthy...
This would be gay company, though Campion and Herrick might find her verses-subtle and passionate though they are-a little too thoroughly on the sad side for their taste...
...last year he has been fishing off the coast of Maine, and Peroy didn't know whether he would be back or not. Gay is registering in the Spring Term, though, and for the past few weeks has been practicing in the Blockhouse...
Together with Fels Carter, a heavy-handed sophomore, Gay ought to be the chief crowd-getter in the fencing meets. His antics come as close to Douglas Fair-banks...