Word: gay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...restaurant; never was offered a free airplane rate to places of appointment, for purposes hymeneal or otherwise, with expenses paid end to end; and never was a guest at a nightclub gathering, or saw one in Washington. No war contractor's agent ever offered this correspondent a gay evening in the hope of getting a helpful piece in the paper...
...third of the four heats, a promising oarsman named Chenery jumped to an early lead and looked like a sure thing--good form, plenty of wind, oarblades flashing--until a gay Charles River excursion boat loomed directly in his path. As he scrambled out of the way, Bruce Preston and Dick Schaal chunked swiftly by to cross the finish line in a dead heat...
...another. Then a few will drift together, forming a little clump. All the amoebae for microns* around stop their feeding and dividing. Like city people running to the scene of an accident, they swarm toward the growing center (see cut). Some join end to end and stream in gay little chains. By thousands and tens of thousands they pile up in a heap...
...from her dull, suave fiance, and marries her on a boat going to the Argentine. But only half an hour of the show has passed, and it is obvious that something is going to break up the happy marriage. What, if not the hero's bad ways and the "gay set"-he hangs around with? There are the usual ominous portents from the beginning, the usual "old friend" with fine, curving lips, named Kitty, and the usual unsociological statement, which goes something like, "I'm bad. You can't change me." She leaves him, while he turns himself good...
...Devonshire goldsmith, Hilliard was trained as a jeweler, started painting miniatures at 13. He carefully studied the work of Holbein, who had done several miniatures during his stay in England a few years earlier. Before he was 25, Hilliard's work was in demand at court. Gay and handsome, Hilliard enjoyed himself. Of the artist's life at court, he noted: "It behooveth that he be in heart wise, as it will hardly fail that he shall be amorous." He was appointed limner and goldsmith to Queen Elizabeth ("to my credit and great comfort") and later to James...