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Word: gays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sometimes both. But gossip is rampant, and everyone knows that Cuernavaca has a yeasty leavening of the oddities and eccentrics who also find their way to Capri, the CÓte d'Azur and other lotus-eaters' resorts of the world. If tales are sometimes .whispered of gay fiestas involving such narcotics as alcohol, opium and intellectual Communism, of ambisextrous wingdings and nudist bridge-and-bathing parties, who could be surprised? Cuernavaca, in fact, has been called "a sunny place for shady people." Propertied residents, concerned over real-estate values, try to keep the gossip down by following...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Snakes in the Garden | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

...ethics and antique notions about the fitness of things, for the civilized world to be led now by a nation which gleefully washes its soiled linen in public and makes belligerent noises at everyone in sight, while wondering what the hell to do next ... I am . . . bemused by the gay ambivalence of the U.S. citizenry, which gets sore if Eisenhower is criticized but cheers when told that his administration "stinks." It's just this sort of subtle, penetrant reasoning that gives us all such confidence in the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 7, 1954 | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

Kenneth S. Lynn '47 6G has won first prize in the National Collegiate Playwriting Contest, it was announced Tuesday. Lynn's play, "The Gay Deceivers," earned him a cash award of $500, and will be published and leased for production next fall by the sponsors of the contest, Samuel French Inc., theatrical publishers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lynn Wins Play Award | 6/4/1954 | See Source »

...story: after one unsuccessful attempt to reach the area, they took another route. When the car came to a gorge Wilson got out alone to continue the journey on foot. Holland went back to town, took a nap in his trailer, bought a bottle of whiskey and spent a gay evening with some prospector friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Geiger-Counter Murder | 5/31/1954 | See Source »

...people that it doesn't too much matter what they do. As staged by George Abbott and Jerome Robbins, The Pajama Game is a smash-hit mixture of racehorse and explosive; not in a long time has any musical so merely competent seemed at the same time so gay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, may 24, 1954 | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

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