Word: gay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shares-and some artists. William Robinson Leigh is one of them. The trouble began, he thinks, with the Algerian wars (1830-47), which made absinthe a French fashion. Artist Leigh, 81, is not the absinthe type, as Manhattan gallerygoers could see last week. West Virginia-born, he spent the Gay Nineties in the Royal Academy at Munich, mastering-between occasional beers -the realistic painting then in demand...
...place of radio. It is a near-slapstick story of a small-town spinster who plays hostess to a hobo until he runs off with her maid and car. The libretto is a gag-writer's dream, filled with skillful swoons (by Marie Powers, star of The Medium), gay tunes, and amateur-theatrical hamming. The audience loved every minute of it, right down to the final clinch and the hero's preposterous curtain line-"Your mouth is an abyss...
...country clothes, Desmond's "animal eyes" made him a scary lover, but he had a wonderfully gentle way with children. To hear him in church, intoning the responses in a pious voice, was enough to convince you that he was a sanctimonious prig-until you saw him gay & dashing in a nightclub. The trusted confidant of his general, Desmond was one of the most promising officers in the army. When he asked her to marry him, in a clumsy, boyish way, Harriet's heart was touched; she gladly accepted...
Music, with Echoes. Matisse's revolutionary synthesis through the years has become increasingly lucid, brilliant and gay. Now his subject matter means little; the colors are the thing. And each color, linked in loose, insistent rhythms of linear composition, sounds in the eye like a separate instrument: trumpet, cello, cymbals, oboe, harp and clarinet. Freely transforming nature, the paintings resound with symbolic echoes...
FENCING (minor H)--John W. Ager, Jr. '49; Halton C. Arp '50l Giles Constable '50; Norman C. Ellis '46 ocC; Raymond W. Frankmann, Jr. '50; John H. Gay, 3rd '49 (captain); Nell F. MacNell, Jr. '49; Thomas A. Masterson '49; William P. Raney '50; Stanley D. Sheldon '49; Charles H. Edwards '46 ocC (manager...