Word: gay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...printed cards are callin and the Freshmen now are gay...
There's a hostess line a-waitin' and a-try-in' to look gay...
...hung around the post office a great deal, insulting the people who came in, and the postmaster kicked him out twice. Then he got gay with Princeton, and was surprised to find he had a tiger by the tail. But others persuaded last year's editorial board to take the big job of cleaning...
Judge Ewing vigorously defended his action: "The children are the most important principals in the [Kourim] case. When this couple ran away at their age it was a gay adventure. . . . When the first child was one year old some court should have given them a lesson in birth control. . . . Their trouble is a direct reflection on the law of this state. The courts are forbidden to give out birth control information, the very thing that would have saved this couple from this situation...
Delicately sentimental like all of Miss Abbott's stories they are; gay little love stories strung upon the warm thread of the Christmas feeling, actually quite unlikely, yet fundamentally quite possible, just like fairy tales or Christmas itself. They tell of what never will happen, but what one feels might and ought...