Word: gay
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Gay, G. F. Sibley...
...Farwell to C. M. Gay...
...fiction, "Our Tolstoi Club" by Dorothy Prescott is decidedly the best, if we except the two serials. It is an amusing story, filled with palpable hits at the provinciality and gossip of a Boston suburb. How "Gay's Romance," by the author of "The Anglomaniacs," will turn out, it is hard to say; the first chapters are not uninteresting...
...lower to higher tones. The movement suggests the approach, the actual presence and the departure of a tremendous gale. Then follows a short movement, full of the finest harmonies, entitled "Summer Idyl" and a less brilliant movement, "The Shepherdess Song." The Suite ends with the "Forest Spirits," a quick, gay, movement, without any one theme, but expressing the idea suggested by the name, very vividly...
Although the college jester may have applied Motley's phrase, "a sheet of infinite platitude," to some of the recent numbers of the Advocate,-and what magazine does not have its gay and its dull days?- certain it is that good old mother Advocate has succeeded in hammering several "golden grains of wit" into the issue of her estimable paper which appears today. It is one of the best of the numbers of this year...