Word: gay
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...GAY, Capt.GLEE CLUB. There will be an important meeting and rehearsal at 7.30 this evening...
After this the meeting progressed more smoothly, and Mr. F. W. Slocum, Roxbury Latin, M. J. Vila, Boston Latin, Mr. A. B. Higginson, St. Pauls, and Mr. W. F. Gay were elected captains of the foot-ball, base-ball, crew and lacrosse respectively...
Hollis Street Theatre. - Adonis. Dixey the gay, Dixey the handsome, Dixey the agile, holds possession of the Hollis Street, and has been received with the same furore that attends his first nights wherever he goes. The play abounds in laughable situations, and Mr. Dixey in turn impersonates a statue, a village belle, Mr. Irving, a barber, and a dry goods clerk with infinite ease and cleverness. Mr. Richards' imitations of Couldock and Bouccicault are exceedingly laughable. There is no lack of pretty music, pretty faces and pretty figures. Adonis is like Venice - "See it and die; for you have then...
After a good deal of discussion as to methods of election the following men were elected members of the society: M. Gow, Div., B. H. Lee, L. S., S. B. Stanton, '87, E. A. Harriman, '88, A. P. Gay, '88, M. E. Kelley. '88, F. W. Thayer, '89, C. M. Thayer, '89, W. F. Pillsbury, '89, B. L. Drew, '89, W. W. Magee, '89, W. Coulson, Sp., F. S. Palmer...
...were Messrs. Magee. '89 and Shoemaker, '89. The speakers on the other side were Messrs. Bronson, Sp., Hesseltine, '88, F. S. Palmer, '87, Merriam, '86, A. T. Perkins, '87, F. B's Williams, '88, Duane, '88, Smith, '86, Lee, L. S., W. L. Currier, '87, W. Williams, L. S., Gay, '88, Mahany, '88, Drew, '89 and Platt, '88. The vote on the merits of the debate as a whole stood, affirmative, 28, negative...