Word: gay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sorrow." Franklin and Eleanor were a gay and carefree couple. Franklin went to law school, Eleanor started having babies. The family spent many joyful summers at Campobello, New Brunswick. There Franklin once walked in his sleep, an incident which Eleanor described to Mama: "He suddenly leaped up, turned over a chair and started to open the shutters. I grabbed his pyjama tails and asked what he wanted and received this surprising answer: 'I must get it, it is very rare, the only one and a most precious book.' After some persuasion he returned to bed, very angry with...
Beginners truly start from the ground up. Footwork is first, Lamar explained. Then he teaches a single blow, the block for that blow, and the counter-punch. Garbed in a black-wool outfit that looks like a cross between Dr. Dentines and Gay Nineties bathing togs, he stands on a podium at one end of the room and drawls instructions to the class. He then demonstrates each blow and its ramifications, and lets the boys try it out on one another...
...score he wrote for the Idler production. Mr. Van Slyck said his music was "built upon 18th Century patterns but lies solidly in the 20th Century harmonically and instrumentally." It seems to have made the transition with more case than Mr. Congreve's play but like it was very gay and spirited. The music is by no means an incidental part of the Idler production, and combined with the lively acting of the Idlers, should give an amusing and interesting evening's experience to anyone who drops around to Agassiz tonight or tomorrow night...
Make Mine Manhattan. Gay, witty revue which, while pretending to laugh at Manhattan Island, makes violent love to it (TIME...
Tallulah's gay parties at her house off Berkeley Square became notorious. She allegedly got Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson tipsy and took pictures. But she generally behaved like a duchess at society functions. An exception was one big masked ball, given for charity at Devonshire House, and attended by every socialite from the Duke of Kent down; some time during the evening Tallulah was seen turning perfect cartwheels around the room...