Word: gay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...book about Hollywood, which for an ordinary human being, or even for a pig, is a strange and terrifying place. The tone of disillusion and disgust very likely comes from Bemelmans' discovery that, aside from the glittering surface, Hollywood is nothing like prewar Paris, where he delighted in being gay rather than sarcastic, and sentimental rather than cynical. We see the giant Olympia Studio, where no man is happy, and the road to success is to keep one's month tightly shut and do no work. But Bemelmans makes no judgements; instead he tells the story of the production...
Divorced. Ann Cooper Hewitt Gay Bradstreet Whitaker, 33, who once suffered national tabloid fame as the "sterilized heiress"; by her third husband, Mining Operator John Whitaker, 56; after six years; in Reno. Heiress Ann (daughter of Inventor Peter Cooper Hewitt) in 1936 filed a lurid suit (eventually dropped) charging that her mother had had her illegally sterilized...
...soundscriber with which qualified students may record their pronunciation in any language they choose is available, as well as a group of records from which the beginner can learn to imitate the gay Parisian tongue in the original...
...metamorphosis from printed page to stage to screen even somebody as lively as father is bound to lose a little briskness, but this celluloid version lacks something besides originality. "Life" can be quite gay when Clarence Day is encountered in the book, where the innuendoes and phraseology of his clever creators supplant visual aids, or in the play, where the three dimensionality of the stage draws an audience into his library. But, on the screen, it takes a few reels to get used to father, and even then you may be left wondering whether the movie is just an avaricious...
...pattern for most of Peacock's novels is a country house party where violently opinionated cranks, in an atmosphere of high spirits, alternate between chasing pretty girls and discussing everything, contradicting each other, and settling nothing-except that they make perfect butts for Peacock's gay, sometimes lethal, satire. Crotchet Castle and Nightmare Abbey, a goodnatured, witty caricature of Shelley as Scythrop dowry, the baffled lover, are probably the best of Peacock and least likely to bog the reader in temporary verbal swamps...