Word: gays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best time to get into the cattle business," said J. Douglas Gay Jr., newly elected president of the American Hereford Association. "When you're sleeping on the floor, you can't fall out of bed. If the cattle market is not on the bottom now, it's awfully close. The only direction...
...bright, alert, gay and affectionate tomboy, she was educated at home by her strict mother and an English governess. Frederika was 17 before she was sent off to school, first in England, then in Florence. The Italian school was typical of many which catered especially to wealthy American girls. Its proprietor. Miss Edith May, was hesitant when the Duke of Brunswick sought to enter his daughter. Her school, she said, was not for princesses: it was a democratic institution where all girls would be treated alike, make their own beds and call each other by their first names...
...Gay, simple cartoonlike models, such as trains reminiscent of Cartoonist Rowland Emett's famed rickety railways in Punch; and "Sky," in which a pair of crescent moons dance around a corona-circled sun and lesser heavenly bodies ($3.95 each, produced by Pace Design Studios, Chicago). ¶Seasonal groups, such as "Santa," featuring a robust St. Nick, a reindeer and a star-carrying angel, all suspended from a crescent moon; and "Spring," a versatile, pastel menage of rabbits, flowers, birds and butterflies ($1 and $1.95, Scamanda Mobiles, Manhattan). ¶Decorative abstractions, such as Sculptor Marechal Brown's "Tapered Quills...
...chess,, but as in chess there can be tedious waits between them. In The Little Hut, first the bland British husband is carefully told what goes on, then the obliging wife is openly shared. The lover, in the process, turns as growlsome as a husband, the husband grows gay as a lark; and in due course, a third gentleman appears and enters the lists (and the hut) with the lady...
...dung floor of a filthy Zulu kraal. Horrified, the doctor, who treats thousands of Zulus in the lonely hills of northern Natal, decided instantly that six-year-old Mavis was a white child; he took her home. Young Mrs. Botha gave Mavis a good bath, tied her hair in gay ribbons, gave her her first doll, her first shoes and set her at a table to learn to eat with knife & fork...