Word: gay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Garry ("The Man Without a Country") Davis, 26, once a gay blade about Broadway, was pretty serious in Paris about his one-man crusade for World Government (he renounced his U.S. citizenship last May to dramatize his point...
...population swelled from a normal 800,000 to twice that number, hotelkeepers flung mattresses in bathtubs and police considered putting deck chairs on hundreds of boats. By day and by night, barrel organs and miniature calliopes, from one end of the city to another, squeaked and whistled gay airs...
...this gay but canny mood, Edinburgh last week welcomed some 40,000 to its second annual, three-week "wee drap o' music an' drama." Edinburgh had spent $400,000 to outdo even the prewar glamor of Austria's Salzburg...
...business is run with gay informality. Elsie, still single, is "administrative director" ("It took me an hour," she says, "to think up that title"). She does a little of everything, including shopping over long-distance telephone. Sample: "Jack, this is Elsie. Elsie-who else calls you from Dallas? Get me some colors, I've got to have colors. Need gabardine, about 10,000 yards. Haven't a yard of brown left. Okay? Now don't forget...
Most artists had been content to sketch typical New York scenes-Central Park, Times Square-in gay or dramatic lights. Others had hoped to do for Manhattan what Pissarro did for Paris, Guardi for Venice and Whistler for London. Among those who had made the difficult attempt to discover Manhattan's essential qualities and translate them into art, at least four had partially succeeded...