[78-L] 'Gay'.

[Michael Shoshani]

On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 00:51 -0500, David Lennick wrote:
> Don't inquire of Georgie Raft/Why his cow has never calfed/Georgie's bull is 
> beautiful but he's gay. Forgot about that lyric. Danny Kaye on Columbia (he 
> sang it in the show) and Mary Jane Walsh on LMS. 

Then there's "gay" as in nonchalant and carefree, in that
recalled-and-supressed Mills Brothers paeon to the Works Progress
Administration:

Don't mind the boss if he's cross when you're gay,
He'll get his pink slip next month anyway,
Three little letters that make life okay -
W. P. A.

MS