Word: gays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Providence belle named Abby Aldrich, daughter of Rhode Island's powerful, wealthy senior U.S. Senator, Nelson Aldrich, at her home at 110 Benevolent Street. He took Abby to college dances and football games, out on tandem rides and canoeing trips down Ten Mile River. ("She was so gay and young and so in love with everything.") Week by week the entries piled up in the ledger: "Flowers, Abby...
Bongo Bongo. Dressed sometimes in a business suit, sometimes in a gay sports shirt and slacks, Henry Kaiser charges all over his 18-acre resort to make decisions and supervise projects personally. Blue prints in hand, he pursues carpenters up scaffolds, sets deadlines for each project and sees to it that they are met. He even participates in floorshow rehearsals, is not above taking a turn at the bongo drums...
...religion has made Arthur Langlie into no holier-than-thou. He socializes easily, goes to parties, can stand glassless and gay at a cocktail party without making drinkers feel awkward. His conversation is punctuated occasionally by a "damn" or "hell." But religion has shaped a fierce, almost fanatic zeal for honest government, coupled with a conviction that all responsible citizens should participate. A political reporter once listened to a minor Langlie speech, reported later: "There was nothing new in what the governor said. But every voter who heard him was made to feel that the future of the republic depended...
...went to the U.S., bought an amphibious jeep in Maryland, named her Half Safe, tuned her up, told his wife Elinore to climb aboard, and headed for Canada. After four false starts he got to Montreal. Two years later he was ready to tool down the roads at a gay clip, and when he hit the seashore he kept right on going−splashing toward the Azores...
...London Daily Express, advocating colored colonial Members of Parliament, Press Lord Beaverbrook took Ellington as a fine example of his race, described him as "a genius of Negro music. He sat by the side of his host, modest, dignified, delighting all the company with his gay mind and splendid bearing...