Word: gay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York post office sent out 1,790,389 packages between Nov. 1 and Dec. 15), formed a network which tied America to every corner of the world where Christmas was cherished. Some 30,000 of them went to Japan, which had the brightest holidays since the war, with gay, Oriental Santa Clauses smiling in front of well-stocked department stores. But many a Japanese mother pulled her child away from the images of Santa "Kurosu" and from the store counters because she could not afford to pay the high prices for the fine new wares. "Receiving gift from complete stranger...
...France's Christian Caillard and Roger Chapelain-Midy, or the sophistication of Oscar Dominguez' half-abstract Christmas tree, with its candles that cast pointed black shadows from each glowing wick, or the wit of Gustave Singier's bright blue abstraction, Noel Provencal, which looked as mindlessly gay and involved as a game of pick-up-sticks. What the U.S. entrants lacked in know-how they almost made up for in energy and imagination. Joseph Hirsch's Journey-an old man and a boy on a burro-looked as if it had been painted with mud from...
...curtain went up on Marc Chagall's Firebird sets, and the audience gasped with pleasure. The brilliant red-and-blue sets, commissioned four years ago by Impresario Sol Hurok for Ballet Theatre, had been picked up by low-budget City Center at cut-rate. But the sets, gay though they were, were the oldest feathers on the new Firebird...
...definition, then, the sport is bound to get rather fierce at times. Elbows are thrown with reasonably gay abandon and spills are frequent. But there wasn't a genuine body check all evening the night I went (this is surprising in a game like this) and the girls were more violent than the men. State Representative William A. Glynn (D--Boston) must have come away with the same opinion, because he filed a bill the other day seeking to bar women from wrestling matches and roller derbies, claiming these events are too rough for feminine participants. The girls...
That year Gay resigned to take on the presidency of the New York Evening Post, and Wallace B. Donham left his Old Colony Trust Company vice-presidency to become the Business School's second dean. In his first report Donham hailed his predecessor's ten years of work in launching the School but lashed...