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Word: gays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Berker's twelve-acre factory in Plymouth came 3,000 wool dresses in 24 sizes (the French offer only eight) that had been snatched up by a Printemps buyer, Prince Alexander Galitzine. "The styles are in sober taste," he carefully explained, "but go well with gay French accessories." Bestselling color: post-office red. Bestselling style: red wool bodice with red and black check skirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Coals To Newcastle | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

...Moon Is Blue. Barbara Bel Geddes brightening a gay formula comedy of Boy-Meets-Girl, Girl-Meets-Wolf, Wolf-Meets-Waterloo (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: No News Is Bad News | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

...American In Paris (MGM) is a grand show-a brilliant combination of Hollywood's opulence and technical wizardry with the kind of taste and creativeness that most high-budgeted musicals notoriously lack. The Technicolorful result is smart, dazzling, genuinely gay and romantic, and as hard to resist as its George Gershwin score...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 8, 1951 | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

...then the Germans carted it away for scrap metal. Biarritz somehow didn't look right without her. This spring, the city fathers signed up a 28-year-old Chilean sculptor named Juan Luis Cousino to carve a new statue. The sculptor's advance design was perfect: a gay, wasp-waisted Eugenie in swirling crinolines. Last week the city fathers were hopping mad. They had their statue, but it wasn't Eugenie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Switch in Biarritz | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

Although Shakespeare might turn over in his grave if he could see what happened to his "The Taming of the Shrew." audiences are still enjoying Cole Porter's gay musical after to years of popularity. While it was still a Broadway success, producers Saint Suber and Lemuel Ayers organized a national company of "Kiss Me Kate" and brought it to 54 cities in the United States and Canada. Now this charming bit of fantasy is back in Boston to haunt theater-goers with its hit tunes and exotic settings...

Author: By Malcolm D. Rivkin, | Title: The Playgoer | 9/28/1951 | See Source »

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