Word: gay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris last week a septuagenarian beauty sat among Europe's social ruins and dreamed of the evil old days when life had been gay...
...unknown Nigerian who painted an insanely gay parade on a wall at Umuahia about 1935. UNESCO director-general Julian Huxley had seen it there, contributed his photographs of the mural to the show...
...circumstances of her birth, family, and natural gift. In part, it was due to the calm with which she surmounts all unpleasantness. If there were shadows, she never mentions them. Perhaps the most characteristic fact about her childhood is that Marian disliked bright colors and gay dresses as much as her sisters loved them...
Supposedly 'a parallel in tempo to John Gay's 'Beggar's Opera'" (it will be entitled "Beggar's Holiday" during the New York run), the play deals with the insouciant exploits of one Macheath, a lady-killing crook. During the course of the show, Mae holes up at Miss Jenny's maison de joie, marries Polly Peachum--the daughter of a humorously crooked politician, and beguiles the keys to his cell door from the jailer's daughter--all in order to avoid the inevitable ending which awaits him in the arms of the electric chair...
...elderly artist, promised to try a new kind of bread made from orange peelings by a Russian inventor. Says he: "There is a distinct gastronomic hazard in this work. But I know of no other job in which I can catch a twenty-pound striped bass off Gay Head and listen to a first performance of a Copland symphony by Koussevitzky, both in the line of duty, in the same week -and get paid...