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Word: gays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defeated Alex Haegler, 6-4, 6-3; Conrad Fischer (D) defeated Ed Koerner, 6-4, 6-4; Mike Levinson (H) defeated Rudy Wachshan, 7-5, 7-5. Sam Eells (D) defeated Geoff Ball, 6-2, 9-7; Craig Fanning (D) defeated Dan Mayers, 7-5, 6-4; and Jim Gay (D) defeated Bob Crounch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deerfield Tennis Team Defeats Yard Squad, 6-3; Wister Missing | 5/23/1952 | See Source »

Revolvers banged noisily, men scuffled in the streets, gay young Negroes beat out tropical rhythms on car fenders. Someone cut the telegraph wire to the interior. It was Sunday and Voting Day; in the first of six major elections in Latin America this year, Panama was choosing a President and a congress. Some 300,000 Spanish-descended hotbloods, dusty-footed Indian women and black West Indians lined up to deposit ballots marked (to aid the illiterate) with party symbols: a bell, a horseman, an ear of corn. Then, as a double precaution against double voting, each digged his fingers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PANAMA: Election Day | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

...gay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Poor Man's Fox Hunt | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

Ecstatic Dyspepsia. Why should the modern reader, who seldom reads the works of Thomas Carlyle, hear so much talk about his marriage? The answer lies in the character of Jane Carlyle. Unlike the wives of many geniuses, Jane was neither a gay deceiver nor a suet pudding; she was a formidable intellectual, born to shine in literary and philosophical discussion. Every great man in London, from Charles Dickens to Alfred Tennyson, sat around the teacups with her; a favored few listened sympathetically to her tales of woe and discontent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Neurotic Victorians | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

Fitzgerald's gay cover heads the issues art work. Charles Robinson's two full page drawings represent good ideas, but are cluttered and often fail to place the center of action where it should be for the maximum effect. On the other hand John Up likes sketches are perfectly balanced and amusingly drawn. An editorial on college weekends is also excellent...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: The Lampoon | 5/13/1952 | See Source »

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