Word: gay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Please God. Almost in one breath Runyon could bid the world be gay ("This [is] the best show in town") and sonorously reproach its gaiety ("There were men . . . and women . . . standing chin-deep in . . . this bloody trial and giving some offense to high Heaven, it seems to me, by their very presence"). When nine-year-old Lorraine Snyder enters the courtroom, Runyon deftly massages the hearts of a million mothers ("She was, please God . . . a fleeting little shadow . . . and she stood looking bravely into [Justice Scudder's] eyes, the saddest, the most tragic little figure, my friends, ever viewed...
Sabre: Garr (B) defeated Gay (H), 5-4, and MacNeil (H), 5-4. Ellis (H) defeated Peckham (B), 5-2, Prescott (B), 5-0, and Garr (B), 5-3. Gay (H) defeated Prescott (B), 5-0, and Peckham (B), 5-4. MacNeil (H) defeated Struck (B), 5-1, and Peckham...
Norm Ellis, the saber expert, Captain John Gay, Tom Master son and Bill Raney will lead the Varsity attack...
...Senator. You just sit around and wait for another irrelevant gag, and this soon becomes a tiresome business in spite of the charming pretences of Ella Raines and Arleen Whelan. There is no doubt that election politics is a fine field for satire, but here the satire is neither gay nor is it contained within the plot...
...week's end, as carnaval hit its stride, gay cariocas chanted Cat's lyrics as they danced up & down the swarming streets...