Word: gayest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Berlin in the '20s was perhaps the gayest capital in the world, and Paul Tillich was no stranger to night life. During one of the art students' fancy-dress balls, at which he turned up in a cutaway and turban, he met a handsome girl in long green silk stockings, named Hannah Werner. As Tillich put it recently: "Things went on from there...
...gayest party girl of them all, Elsa Maxwell, 75, confided to Paris reporters something she has long brayed to everyone in earshot at her favored Manhattan watering holes: her credo for frivolous success. Chunks from the eight-lump manifesto, in its current version: "I have developed the fine art of choosing my enemies. Everyone loves truth but nobody says it except me. I firmly believe the world is my oyster. I stay away from geniuses; the men I see most often are Orson Welles, Cole Porter and Aly Khan...
...only had Princess Grace given birth to a son and heir in March, but Monaco had enjoyed its headiest and gayest season since the war. Yet for His Serene Highness, Prince Rainier III, 35, it was a time of continual vexation. Ever since the new 18-man legislative council took office in January, the prerogatives of Europe's last absolute monarch had come under serious question...
...odds the gayest and most gala evening of the London season, and everyone was having a lovely time-everyone, that is, but a certain young lady. Beautifully gowned, as pretty of face and form as any in the room, she sat in regal isolation, helplessly frozen in the icy formality of unapproachable rank, her eagerness to dance hidden under a fagade of gracious half smiles. At last, the only person in the'room able to do so decided on drastic action. Bearing down on a stag line of diffident lordlings, he seized one by the arm and muttered...
Hungary's "magnates" (the aristocratic heads of the great families) were Europe's most lavish hosts and its gayest dogs. Theirs was a world of beautiful women, schmalzy music, dashing guardsmen and fox hunts. But Hungary's peasants, whose ranks were filled with the Magyarized descendants of conquered peoples, were more downtrodden than any in Europe...