Word: gayer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...England's new age of plain, distressingly modern "austerity" furniture and china, Grosvenor-goers crowded long and lovingly around the polished fruits of Britain's gayer days. All of the exhibits were made prior to 1830 (the official criterion of antiques), and most were British-made, although there were also spoils of the age when Britons were the world's wealthiest, most avid and widely traveled souvenir-hunters...
Manhattan was richer, gayer, noisier than it had been since the days of Texas Guinan, the "Black Bottom" and the speakeasy peephole. The big spender was back, nightclubs were jammed and Broadway had never blazed so brightly. But the slim, jaunty little man who had been given star billing at the last big performance was no longer part of the show...
...artist and intellectual, Hilda now shuns Ciro's bar and others of the gayer spots. Except for a lingering lunch at the quiet Ambassadeurs, she sticks to her comfortable apartment in tree-graced Calle Londres. The deep blue walls assuage her spirit, set off her shining blonde hair...
...Pennsylvania Avenue side of the White House, the big round pansy bed was in vivid bloom, and the oriental magnolia trees were suddenly heavy with purple-edged white blossoms. The wide, deep lawn was a bright green. To the passer-by the Executive Mansion seemed whiter, dressier, gayer than at any time since five springs...
...gayer younglove yarn than Sailor rarely turns up on the screen. Director Richard Whorf has come within a couple of ticks of making something as good as The Clock (TIME, May 14). Racier and rowdier, Sailor has The Clock's tenderness and sentimental charm (plus moments of mere cuteness), considerably more pace and broad humor...