Word: gays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late Poetess Gertrude (Tender Buttons) Stein and her constant companion and autobiographee Alice B. Toklas, used to have gay old times together in the kitchen. Some of the unique delicacies that were whipped up will soon be catalogued by the U.S. publisher, Harper & Bros., in a wildly epicurean tome called The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book, which is already causing excited talk on both sides of the Atlantic. Perhaps Alice's most gone concoction (and also a possible clue to some of Gertrude's less earthly lines) was her hashish fudge ("which anyone could whip...
...slip into the school at night to work at the kilns. After his first ceramics show proved a critical and popular success, he started his own shop with three kilns and two helpers. They worked long and seriously through the week. But on Saturday they had fun, making spontaneous, gay pieces. Since then, these have become the regular product of the Wiinblad kilns. Says Wiinblad: "Now every day is Saturday...
Died. Laura Lee, 87, militant suffragette of the Gay Nineties who introduced horrified Boston to the poodle cut and the one-piece bathing suit, helped start a national fad when she wore bloomers (which she cut out and sewed herself) to the 1893 Chicago World's Fair; of a broken neck incurred in a fall; in Melrose, Mass...
Furthermore, Brigadoon on the stage was a flash of tartans and gay Argyles; on the screen the scenes are smeared with a brownish heather mixture of Ansco Color...
Hollywood's gay young marrieds, Lana Turner and Lex (Tarzan) Barker, were reported to have kissed and made up, after a spat at a recent party. To celebrate the occasion, they did what any other sensible couple might do-if they were Lana and Lex. Reported Columnist Sidney Skolsky: "Lana and Lex, who just bought sports cars exactly alike, caused a sensation ... as they cruised down Sunset Boulevard side by side in their creamy-white convertibles with black and white upholstery...