Word: gay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even love on the dole was not such a bad racket. A sharp operator could live in a good hotel room (even when travelers were being turned away) and get generous allowances for restaurant meals simply by talking fast and avoiding employment. And he could sometimes live the good, gay life for months without hindrance by welfare authorities...
Ditch diggers and bank presidents wore bright-colored Aloha shirts to work; women appeared in gay, ankle-length muu-muus,* modern models of the Mother Hubbards which early missionaries had hung on native Hawaiian girls. A big, bronzed, part-Hawaiian gas company foreman named Charles Kramer acted as Alii, or king of the celebration, attended parades, parties, sports events, suitably attired in scanty trunks, a long yellow cloak and a bright-colored helmet...
...GAY GENIUS [427 pp.) - Lin Yutang-John...
...Saturday football games were played on Jarvis Field and the best rooms were in Grays and Matthews. Many years have passed since 1888, and now he has come back after retirement to watch football practices, attend Sunday chapel, and at least partially relive the unworried college days of the gay, mustachioed Eighties...
...football. He is contemplating a book on old-time football, and also hopes to publish various sketches and reminiscences of his life. About Harvard he is enthusiastic, and being broached on the subject, will tell you forcefully, "Harvard is in every way superior to what it was in the gay Eighties, and the student body seems much more earnest than in my days;" but he won't stay talking to you long, for there's plenty for a man to do in Cambridge these days...