Word: gayest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sets, that harmonize nicely with Irene Sharaff's stylized costumes. Robert Alton has staged the dances brilliantly with all the verve and sharpness of his past work. And the whole combination sets the scene for Ray Bolger, who has never been in better form, capering and cavorting through the gayest musical of the year...
...gayest invasion of World War II was Britain's raid on Spitsbergen (TIME, Sept. 15). News which Britain let out last week established that fact and by implication a good deal more about the invasion which was undertaken to thwart German plans to seize valuable mines...
...still tried to behave as if the nightly trip to shelters was a picnic outing. London reviews were crowded with people who could laugh uproariously at war-flavored jokes. Housewives were still in the mood and the money to shop, and flower stands were loaded with the best and gayest flowers in years. In air-raid shelters in intellectual Bloomsbury, Britons kept alive their ancient, threatened culture by chanting quaint madrigals. Britons were still Britons, but they would not have been human if the strain had made no impression...
...some $85,000,000 (Mex.) from British India to free Shanghai, where there is still no income tax. He bought real estate, built the city's biggest buildings, lives in begadgeted Oriental splendor atop his own Cathay Hotel. Lame, cynical, monocled Sir Victor's parties are the gayest in gay Cathay society; his business interests as wide as Shanghai's own. Besides cotton mills, building supplies, tugboats, bus lines, a brewery, a laundry, he owns or manages Shanghai's best hotels, apartments and office buildings, including Cathay Mansions where the National City Bank has just taken...