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Word: gay (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before other news-sheets had inscribed their scroll, the Oregon Aggies (School of, Agriculture) came east last week to play N. Y. U. and Stanford came east, like a troupe of gay and warlike hoboes, to play the Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: West is Best | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...Vagabond has managed to keep up his usual gay and carefree appearance in public during the last few weeks, it has been at the price of a great mental strain. For his soul has been oppressed with the knowledge that dogging his every footstep and growing more huge and ominous every day there has been a dread spectre of Responsibility. Neglect served only to increase the bulk and fearsomeness of the apparition, and so yesterday the Vagabond surrendered and set about making out his Christmas shopping list...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/8/1928 | See Source »

...Harvard hockey players had to battle everything but the police in their efforts to practice in those late winters of the Gay Nineties. An expedition, carrying all its worldly hockey goods with it, would set out in the afternoon, like Xenophon's Ten Thousand, looking for a place with ice. When it was found, camp was pitched, clothes were changed in the cold, and hockey was played as conditions permitted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOR'-EASTERS OF NEW ENGLAND HAVE BLOWN HARVARD RIGHT INTO HOCKEY GAMES SINCE THE TEAM HAD ITS SHOES STOLEN | 12/6/1928 | See Source »

...consensus of critical opinion places Miss Varady among them. Although her appearance today is primarily in connection with Music 4, those responsible for the conduct of the course extend the usual cordial invitation to all members of the University. Even if it makes one late for luncheon at some gay gathering elsewhere in New England, the Vagabond recommends attendance at the Music Building at 10 o'clock this morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/1/1928 | See Source »

...said a few fast greetings in French and moved down the pier to the luggage space allotted those whose names began with A. There were 22 trunks to be passed on, trunks filled with costumes which were white and ruffled, sleek and black, cloudy and lacey: trunks for gay mantillas, for red and green and golden slippers. Even customs officers looked their awe. Such colors, such stuffs were rare. Such charm was rare too, but at the moment no commensurate assurance swelled the breast of the sparkling creature. To be sure she was La Argentina, the Spanish dancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Creature & Castanets | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

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