Word: gayest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your comments on my letter about the passing of TIME (May 17) have disturbed me. Let me say in no uncertain terms that I hope for TIME'S eternal survival. It came into the drabbest field of writing (news reporting) and made it the gayest. It has done the reading public an inestimable service and deserves heartfelt appreciation...
...rain dripped all night from miles of waterproofed flags and bunting. Last revelers from the gayest nightspots had not reached home before operators in the telephone exchanges began plugging in wake-up calls to subscribers. Ordinarily there are about 800 such calls in London, this morning there were 10,000. It was barely light and still drizzling when the long streams of humanity began flowing in toward the heart of the spectacle, on foot, in motors, on the subways...
...preparation for the one day in the year when it is the sporting capital of the U. S. For its 50,000 visitors, who it hopes will leave about $1,500,000 behind them, Louisville this week will provide a program aimed at making this 63rd Derby the noisiest, gayest, most profitable since Depression...
Eighty bright colored flags and banners, predominantly crimson and white have turned the Yard, one of the University's most famous possessions, into a gay festival eaclosure, the gayest in its long history...
...dance, sing or wisecrack would be considered a "Fascist" and shot. Said Miss Miller: "Everyone, ham actors and $500-a-week stars, were paid exactly $1 each per day, plus a meal ticket. We could eat on our tickets at the Ritz Hotel. Barcelona is one of the gayest spots today, because the Reds have rounded up so much talent." Stalemate- Elsewhere in Spain last week the armies of conservative Generalissimo Francisco Franco and General Emilio Mola continued fighting their bloody civil war with armed Radical militia of the Madrid Government which itself estimated that 95% of the officers...