Word: gayest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...1890s the Moulin Rouge was the gayest dance hall in Paris. It had little Tunisian donkeys which bore cancan girls on their backs, an immense papier-mâché elephant which hid a troupe of dancers and an entire orchestra in its belly. It also had rough & ready Louise Weber (known for her lusty appetites as La Goulue-the glutton), who nightly exposed her shapely limbs and 60 yards of lace lingerie in hectic kicks and splits. To publicize her, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec did his first poster...
...friends, who range from Joe Martin, the Robert Tafts, and the Fred Vinsons to Omar Bradley and Louis Bromfield, find her a likable, kindly woman. Bromfield pronounces her "one of the gayest people I know-she could give you a good time if she had only a five-cent beer." They suspect that she is lonely. With the bounty of a childless woman, she lavishes affection on her blonde niece Betty Tyson, whose Newport coming-out party in 1945 was the gaudiest shindig since before the war. Her restlessness has found outlets in her parties and such causes...
...young girl in the employ of the Devil, and the high-kicking flesh & blood leg that Minnie suddenly sprouted. The whole thing was a frisky parable in which good & evil did not wrestle so much as tickle each other with straws. Generally tame and frequently tedious, Minnie owed its gayest moments to the bouncy charm of Actress Hull (Arsenic and Old Lace, Harvey...
Billy Bayly was disgusted: he was scarcely able to see a thing. On the Union side, General Meade's horse ran away with him, and his staff followed (they all returned to the righting eventually); a Confederate band struck up the gayest "polkas and waltzes"; Sir Arthur found it "very curious...
Then he left hurriedly for the trip back to Rio and the Missouri, where he was scheduled to receive 500 delegates and Brazilian notables for luncheon. In the harbor, the fog had closed down and a cold wind was blowing. Many of Brazil's gayest hats were bedraggled by the time the guests managed to jump from bobbing launches to the Missouri's gangway. Brazilians visibly regretted the lack of wine, but consoled themselves with huge amounts of American coffee...