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Word: gayer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high point of the Dunces' efforts achieve their hopes: Winter is the Time to Snow your Girl, by member Erich Segal, is light, like a boyishly risque Deck the Halls: "Nothing could be gayer, than to one-horse-open-sleigh her." Hound (dog) has as much rock, and more down-to-earthiness than Mr. Presley's. Soloist Bill Gurton captures the true flavor of America's adolescent subculture, though the record does not convey his physical talents...

Author: By Walter E. Wilson, | Title: Music to Flip to | 4/10/1957 | See Source »

Keye's team-mates will be Captain Dave Scott and Dave Gayer at forwards and Dave Peterson and Mike Donahue at guards. Donahue is the team's high

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '60 Swimmers, Five Face Elis | 3/9/1957 | See Source »

...friends, take off for a tryst in hell, trouble develops on Olympus, where an amorous Jupiter is losing the loyalty of his court (everybody is tired of that endless nectar and ambrosia diet); so he agrees to cheer up the gods by a mass junket to the gayer clime of Hades and, incidentally, to rescue Eurydice. In hell, confusion is confounded by folderol, but finally-with the help of what is probably the fieriest cancan ever written-everyone agrees on a highly satisfactory and immoral solution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera Boffola | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

...sets for the opera. The sets were a great success, and so was an extensive exhibit of Kokoschka's work at the Residenz Museum. Seventy year old Kokoschka was as bold as ever and from the looks of the large dramatic canvasses, sprawling with jotted forms and gushing color, gayer than usual. There was still a message but Kokoschka was definitely concentrating less on ideology and more on painting. This week some of the earlier works of the great Austrian Expressionist are on exhibit at the Gropper Galleries...

Author: By Lowell J. Rubin, | Title: From Kokoschka to Jennerjahn | 1/25/1956 | See Source »

...girl from Kansas caught on fast. When Bill Woodward came home from the war, Ann led him rapidly away from the staid social world, in which his family had always moved, into gayer, more publicized spheres of international society. "Bill was brought up differently," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Girl from Kansas | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

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