Word: gay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unwelcome guest, elaborately welcomed, is fair meat for "Elizabeth's" delicate irony. Gay and delightful in manner, there is no gaiety in Expiation-all marriage is discontent, all marriage disagreeable. And according to old Mrs. Bott, the negative moral is that troubles, being the stuff that dreams are made on, will pass...
...Gay. Francine Larrimore, last seen in Chicago, easily carries Rachel Crothers' new play on her frequently-shrugged shoulders. The plot?a divorced couple's reunion brought about by his attractions for another girl?contains no weighty situations. The Crothers dialog is blithe if not brilliant...
...other Harvard entrants are as follows: R. O. Bishop '29; C. W. Eiseman '30, Channing Frothingham '31, Donald Gay '30, Gordon Huggins '29, W. S. Meany 1L, Daniel Merriman '32, T. D. Mumford '29, Burton Richardson '29, A. G. Thacher...
...Yankee Circus on Mars was in town. Cobs in endless procession clopped up Sixth Avenue. Black coachmen and white, in cockaded silk hats, with thorny whips at jaunty angles, fluttered the leathern ribbons that guided the cobs that drew glistening Brewster cut-unders to the theatre. Out stepped gay New York blades, boxed in smart, heavy tailcoats...
...another and decked with furniture suited to the occasion, in place of the more ordinary pieces, temporarily abandoned. In each room sat the mother of one of the five, behind her a white-covered, sandwich-laden table. The floor of one room was bared, while a phonograph tempted the gay company to dance...