Word: gayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city is more nervous, but no European capital is today gayer or more frivolous. With no blackouts, no curfews, no ration cards to worry about, Bucharest's 900,000 sophisticated, easygoing, sensuous citizens are at last earning the title which the city long ago assumed but never quite deserved-"Paris of the East." The Nippon bar, hangout of lonely, pleasure-bent males, and the Colorado, more elegant and respectable cabaret, keep open nightly until 5:30 a.m. On the less naughty side of Bucharest serious politicians relax at famed Café Capsa. The big, swanky outdoor terrace...
Lilly Doche, swank Manhattan milliner, defended the present preposterousness of women's hats: "These are anxious times and conditions are disturbed, so it is no wonder that women go out and buy gayer hats than usual. ... To be attractive women should have what the French call esprit both inside and on top of their heads...
...stunt is never so startling the second time, and The Hot Mikado, though much more audacious than the Federal Theatre version, suffers from tagging at its heels. Further, when the Swing Mikado is willing to let itself go, it becomes a gayer and more abandoned romp. But simply as a show, The Hot Mikado wins hands down. It is gaudy, glittering, foot-wise, fast. It spurns Gilbert & Sullivan's Savoy operas for Harlem's Savoy ballroom. It is less profitably compared with the Swing Mikado than with such spirited colored shows as Blackbirds of 1928, Shuffle Along...
Columbia Professor Arthur David Gayer: "Those who find the source of all the trouble in Government spending and unbalanced budgets as such are spending too much time barking up the wrong tree...
...time a policeman loomed up, and gazed at us attentively while we were about to frame our question, asking for direction to one of the smaller but gayer places for sustenance, but before we could put all that into words, the policeman said, not at all unkindly, but with a definite note of reproof, "Straight ahead and turn left at the next traffic light for Harvard Square...