Word: gays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Francisco, the bodies of Benito Mussolini and Clara Petacci were lowered into potter's field graves in Milan. Midway through the conference came the news that Hitler was dead. In the Utah desert, while the Pacific war raged on past Okinawa, a B-29 named Enola Gay was secretly being tested to carry the bomb that would make Japan, already defeated, plunge headlong into surrender...
Touring her realm's hinterland, Greece's vivacious Queen Frederika, in a sporty getup, was in gay spirits at a festival in her honor in an Epirus village, won smiles and applause from the townsfolk as she stepped adroitly through the paces of a folk dance, relaxed folksily afterwards...
...shutters of Delacroix's exotic little dream world. Some of the "variations" verged on parodies, both of Delacroix and of Matisse. (Said Picasso to a friend after Matisse died: "I will try to continue his work.") More intriguing to curiosity seekers was another recent work. Picasso's gay-as-a-flag red, white and blue portrait of his new mistress : Madame...
...years the Metropole featured a mid-Victorian atmosphere, with small crystal chandeliers dangling from its stucco ceiling, and a Gay Nineties revue on its narrow platform. When febrile '54 lost interest, the café took a flyer on jazz, tentatively signed Dixieland Trumpeter Jimmy McPartland & Co. Since then, the Metropole has parlayed its music and saloonlike atmosphere into one of Manhattan's most successful jazz slots. The clientele is as mixed as a parade crowd: servicemen, college kids, tourists, jazz fans, a few unattached girls, and some times such celebrities as Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowska and Crooner Eddie Fisher...
...first row of the crowd was cleanly decapitated. Twenty yards away, the chassis cut another swath. Gasoline took fire; then the Mercedes' magnesium-alloy body went up in a searing white flame. Levegh's headless corpse was burned to a crisp. A 400-sq. yd. stretch of gay and cheering people became a black, hysterical horror...