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Word: gayest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Drop of a Hat. One of Broadway's gayest evenings provided by two witty Englishmen with the timing of the solar system and the teamwork of the Lunts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER,BOOKS: Time Listings, Dec. 7, 1959 | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

...Drop of a Hat. Ranging between satire and whimsy, the educated "afterdinner farrago" of two English song-and-chatter specialists provides one of the gayest evenings on Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: On Broadway, Nov. 9, 1959 | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...sinuous, mocking and charming, Swann's way is to play everything straight, then suddenly seem straight out of Edward Lear. He is as repressed and colorless as a don, then as vaultingly mad as Don Quixote. Their combined way has given Broadway its gayest evening since La Plume de Ma Tante...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Show on Broadway, Oct. 19, 1959 | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

...shoot the can-can number without pants." Like most of Hollywood, which was like most of the U.S., Shirley MacLaine had the Khrushchev visit on her mind (she is an official movie hostess) and, since it was inevitable, saw no reason for not relaxing and making it the gayest oddball social event of the season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Can-Can Without Pants? | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

This is the credo of Minoru Yamasaki, who at 46 is turning out some of the gayest and most graceful buildings in the U.S. In recognition of Yamasaki's growing stature among U.S. architects, the Detroit Institute of Arts will open next week a full-scale show of his past works and future projects, timed to coincide with the dedication of Yamasaki's newest building -the Detroit headquarters of Reynolds Metals Co. Though its grille of gold anodized aluminum owes an unabashed debt to Architect Ed Stone, the Reynolds building, on a 4½-acre plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Serenity & Delight | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

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