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Word: gayness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whacks, But No Tips. The Zantzingers set out for a gay social evening of dancing at Baltimore's annual Spinsters' Ball, a white-tie affair in which passed-over postdebutantes in their late 20s take another try at meeting the right sort of men. With another couple, the Zantzingers stopped off for preball dinner at downtown Baltimore's Eager House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maryland: The Spinsters' Ball | 2/22/1963 | See Source »

...festival pales by comparison with the old days, when Magyar aristocrats would spit on a 100-forint note (worth about $12.50), slap it on a gypsy's forehead, and demand passionate violin-playing until the spittle dried and the note fell off. But all things considered, it is gay enough. At Budapest's Press Ball last week, young men in stovepipe trousers and girls in daringly décolleté dresses performed a writhing twist that onlookers pointed to with a touch of pride as their own "dirty twist." For the monster masked balls that punctuate the season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hungary: Gay until Tomorrow | 2/22/1963 | See Source »

...this gaiety fool you," a Budapest writer warned an American visitor after a Farsang ball. "The young people are gay because they are young. The old people-they are gay because they don't know what comes tomorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hungary: Gay until Tomorrow | 2/22/1963 | See Source »

...Maple Leaf Rag Song (1903) Ragtime began hypnotizing the nation about the time the Gay Nineties became gay, and it disappeared years before the Stanley Steamer and the suffragette. It might still be gone if it were not for the efforts of a Sedalia, Mo., piano peddler named John Stillwell Stark and an entertainer and pianist named Max Morath. Stark had the good sense to start publishing classic Negro rags like Maple Leaf Rag and Sunflower Slow Drag in 1899 when he was in late middle age; last year Morath, 36, began playing the rags on television-and has become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Folk Songs: Rag Peddler | 2/22/1963 | See Source »

...Brough briefly sketch in Hedda's early life-born Elda Furry in Hollidaysburg, Pa., marriage to and divorce from elderly Musical Comedy Star DeWolf Hopper, a so-so career in films, and finally a column in 1938-and then turn to the kind of keyhole chitchat about "mad, gay, heartbreaking" Hollywood that has fueled the Hopper for years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Through a Keyhole Darkly | 2/15/1963 | See Source »

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