Word: gays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...request of the Foreign Office, the French ambassador canceled the gay show scheduled for Bastille Day this week at the Colón Opera House; four other diplomatic parties were called off. Juan Perón spent most of his time at Eva's bedside in the secluded presidential residence in suburban Olivos...
...convention hall itself seemed a touch less garish than usual. The gay red, white & blue was balanced by quiet greys and blues (which show up more sharply on TV). The face of Abraham Lincoln looked down earnestly on the delegates. An hour behind schedule, pudgy National Chairman Guy Gabrielson advanced to the rostrum, which jutted, like the bridge of an ocean liner, above the floor. "O.K., boys," he said, and banged the gavel...
...Mexico, which traditionally goes in for magnetic types as political leaders, Ruiz Cortines is quite a change. A staid and decorous little man with an ingrained aversion to personal publicity, he has none of his predecessor's razzle-dazzle or zest for gay Acapulco yachting parties. His favorite form of relaxation is playing dominos. Even the most cynical Mexicans acknowledge his honesty. "I was poor as a boy, and I still am," he said during the campaign...
...gritty realism; in The Conformist, political allegory; in Conjugal Love, a fine-threaded analysis of human passion. An earlier Moravia novel now published in the U.S. for the first time, The Fancy Dress Party, shows him in still another manner; it seems a deliberate attempt to recreate that gay mixture of political satire and opera bouffe which make Stendhal's Charterhouse of Parma a masterpiece...
Slumping Harem. The ocean bred its gay as well as its devil dogs. One of the gayest, Alexander Hare, a rich English trader, settled on one of the beautiful atolls of the Cocos-Keeling Islands in 1827 with a slave harem of 117 beauties from Malaya, Java, Bali and points east. A former partner and prior claimant, John Clunies-Ross, a Scot, soon showed up with his family and a crew of predatory bachelors. To keep them out of what he called his "flower garden," the latter-day Solomon ladled out rum to Ross's men, penned his women...