Word: gay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doctor was an attractive man, and had been a gay blade as a youth. He had played football at Princeton, loved beer, singing, the sound of mandolins; during his years at Dartmouth College medical school he had written the famed Dartmouth Song. But Harold Segur never learned anything about the doctor to substantiate his sense of kinship. When he was 21 the doctor showed him his adoption papers. They read: parents unknown...
Eyeing the returns, M.R.P. Leader Francisque Gay tugged his pointed grey beard, twinkled: "This morning we are happy...
...once-gay whoopers learned to shun civilization. Whenever the white man's guns appeared, they fled deeper into the wilderness. Now their remnants breed in some unknown place in Canada's far north. This tactic of despair may be their final undoing: they are not Arctic birds, and are probably unsuited to far northern breeding grounds...
...Gay Blade. In St. Louis, Jerome Scissors got engaged to Laura Cutter...
...musical excellence of Goldovsky's effort also suffered somewhat from the mediocrity of several of his singers. Robert Gay and Francis Barnard in the leading male roles of the Count and Figaro, respectively, lacked both the force and training essential to good Mozartean baritones. Luigi Vellucci, however, surprised with superb performances in two roles, the comic ones of Basilio and Curzio...