Word: gay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...featuring at present Andy Kirk and his atomic guitarist, Floyd Smith, are rocking to any other beat than three quarter time. Gone are the days when the respective hearts of the Boston Jazz Society, the Copley Terrace, the Ken, Maxie's, and the Tic-Toc were young and gay. O tempore, O mores! Some of us can be found of a gloomy week day eve crying in our beer at the Show Time where at least they sing a fairly complete, uninhibited version...
Symbols of a prewar era that now seems as remote as the Gay Nineties, the Trylon & Perisphere are gone. But the World's Fair site at Flushing, N.Y. remains. There next week (Oct. 23) the U.N.'s 51 nations will open the first meeting of the General Assembly...
...Freddie Francisco also had to be toned down, after he wrote about a gay party at a many-bedroomed house on the San Francisco peninsula, concluded that before the evening was over all the rooms in the house had been pressed into service. The Examiner publicly apologized to the matron and her guests, thereby dodging a libel suit...
When U.S. airlines were young and gay, they were so anxious to attract passengers that they were politer than so many Lord Chesterfields. Even when passengers made reservations, then failed to show up at flight time, it was quite all right. These "no-shows" cost the lines an estimated $8 million a year, and were the chief reason many planes took off with half their seats empty...
...record stalls looked as gay as well-appointed nurseries last week; an unprecedented flood of children's albums was ready for the Christmas trade. The newly recorded daydreams and nightmares ranged from Nelson Eddy's bellowing like a whale to Jose Ferrer's reading of Mozart and Schubert biographies with symphonic accompaniment. Best of the lot: a straightforward dramatization of Oscar Wilde's poignant fairy tale, The Happy Prince, starring Bing Crosby and Orson Welles (Decca, 4 sides) and Balladeer Woody Guthrie's original harum-scarum Songs to Grow On-Nursery Days (Disc, 6 sides...