Word: gay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What might have shocked the censors is its gay freedom from what most of America considers fairly absolute morals--a count and his wife, for example, bet each other, as part of the dinner table conversation at a party, that the wife cannot seduce the man on his right in fifteen minutes (the same man, incidentally, whom the Count recently met in his--the Count's--nightshirt at the house of their mutual mistress); they bet; the woman later turns out to have won--and in eight minutes, not fifteen. Good for Boston. Cultural relativism. Moral perspectives. Jolly good...
...York's Judge Samuel Seabury seemed almost an anachronism in the gay, irreverent 1920s. The son, grandson and great-grandson of clergymen, he saw part of life through the stained-glass windows of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He saw another part with the solemn, pince-nezed gaze of a reform-minded lawyer and jurist. The worst of what he saw was symbolized by James John Walker, New York City's twice-elected (1925, 1929) mayor. Jimmy Walker, top hat perched jauntily askew, wisecracked his way through the '20s like a handsome Bacchus, and it was perhaps inevitable...
...spring day Koreans, who believe in dressing up to vote, went to the polls 8,500,000 strong, the men in baggy white pantaloons and high black horsehair hats, the women in gay skirts and blouses. Minor rural attempts at voter intimidation were reported, but the freedom of the franchise was registered when the opposition Democrats took 14 out of 16 seats in Seoul, and it was clear that a two-party system was beginning to take hold...
...raining on Saturday, and admission was ninety cents. Over two dozen gay booths and multi-colored stalls were strung out along Garden Street on an iron-pipe and cardboard scaffolding...
Love Under Canvas. Kokoschka, for his part, recalls Adele as a girl who danced like a dream-gay, relaxed, with beautiful legs. (But he was convinced that her eyes turned inwards and her dog's eyes outwards.) "I flirted with her a long time, and we were in love," he says impishly, and just as impishly he put Leda and the Swan in the background. "He did sort of make love to me under the canvas," says Adele. "He would look at me and purr. But I was madly in love with Prince George [later the Duke of Kent...