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Word: gayest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Despite rising prices and chilly weather, New Orleans boasted of the largest, gayest Mardi Gras since its beginning in 1827. Forty-three balls were scheduled. Thirteen parades tootled through flag-festooned streets. As far away as Biloxi, Miss, hotels were chock full, and private rooms in town were bringing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Feb. 24, 1947 | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...Russian civil war, was chosen for special training as a Communist foreign agent, became indelibly indoctrinated with the century's great new faith. During his novitiate, he found time to marry a Russian girl who bore him a son, Zharko (today one of Belgrade's gayest problem-playboys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Proletarian Proconsul | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

Perhaps the gayest of all the matrons are Frau Keitel (her husband, like Field Marshal Göring, has been detained on business in Nürnberg) and young Frau von Blomberg (who met her late husband, the War Minister, in one of Berlin's most exclusive brothels); they share a ten-room chalet high above the lake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Social Notes | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

Like Manhattan, Montreal is a portal city, the doorway to French Canada. It has tourist attractions, too-the best French food and the gayest nightclubs (it also had the best bordellos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: QUEBEC: Innocents Abroad | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

...Gallows in the Rain. Gayest feather in any Jesuit hat was "Campion's Brag." This document, written for use after his almost certain arrest, circulated beforehand and made him famous. In it he asked for three audiences: with the Privy Council, the Masters of the Universities, and the lawyers of the realm, to prove the truth of his faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To Crie Alarme | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

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