Word: gay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco's Chinatown exchange, where operators answer with a cheery "Gay Daw Ho" (number please), speak many dialects and know most customers' numbers by heart, a walkout of all the regular operators caused a wonderful confusion...
...familiarity of every scene, speech or stanza; in waiting for this line to pop out or wondering how that character will stand up. Compared to Alice on the stage, even Hamlet becomes an uncharted wilderness. But much of the fun lies in what is permanently funny-or what is gay, or outrageous, or queer...
...minor characters, most of them fellow-warriors of the colonel, that give it color and geniality. They keep popping in & out, seldom doing anything more striking than singing songs, drinking toasts, dabbling in the past, dreaming toward the future. But they frequently do all these things in a gay and human fashion, and occasionally their war experiences give the characters an unexpected third dimension...
Sales of perfume and costume jewelry were dolefully slow. But sales of gay scarves were phenomenal. They were 1947's chief fad everywhere. Another fad: "shorty" coats (known in some stores as "swallow tails"). In Chicago, Marshall Field's offered a shorty specialty which was going like hot cakes among teenagers: a "hot-jive jacket" of yellow plastic with such sharp legends as "Natch" and "Slick Chick" printed on it. The "slicker" days of the twenties were back...
...slapping the table with an emphatic "no." Then the singers stop on a temporal dime, and without perceptible damage to the tempo of the rehearsal Woody throws in an anecdote about "Koussie" in a rough approximation of Koussevitzky's English. The atmosphere is always spirited, though not always so gay. When he uses his fist instead of his palm on the desk, everyone sits up and gives the best...