Word: gay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This delightfully written biography reveals an unjustly forgotten author and the gay society of the Regency and pre-Victorian days...
There she became the Great Jeritza to a gay, music-loving Vienna. Her fame grew with her repertoire. A beautiful prima donna has always seemed a phenomenon. Here was one magnificently built, with sea-blue eyes and golden hair. The public raved. Composers made their music for her. She created Strauss' Ariadne, later the Empress in Die Frau ohne Schatten. She was his Salome, his Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier). He saw her in Max Reinhardt's revival of Offenbach's Belle Hélène and an idea was born. It simmered and swelled until last winter...
Away from the public she is like that-unaffected, gay. She lives at the St. Regis Hotel with her husband, two maids. For recreation she loves the movies, goes sometimes to three shows in succession, sits enthralled, comes home to mimic all the players. She likes to stand at shop windows, nose pressed against the pane, to look at glittering things. But for jewels, save pearls and emeralds, she cares little, dresses simply always and in perfect taste. She likes potatoes, dumplings, sausages and cabbage, can cook them all herself and turn a handspring when she has finished eating...
...Summary follows: HARVARD ST. ANSELM'S Record, Watt, Hoguet, Appel, i.e., r.e., Donahue, Furnoyle Finlayson, Kuehn, Walcott, Peterson, i.t., r.t., Folley, Day Myerson, Draper, Brooks, Gay, i.g., r.g., Kilbane, Ropel, Russel Cunningham, Fitagerald, Trafford, c. C., Conners Hacket Foristall, Ginman, Field, Adlls, r.g., i.g., Kalishes, O'Leary Faxon, Flynn, Cowin, Coyle, r.t., i.f., Francis. Roach Mouschegian, Nickerson, Beyer, r.e., i.e., Walker. Wyman Wood. Schereschewsky, Stubbs, q.b. q.b., Zapustas White, Fincke, Gleason, i.b., r.h., Delitde, Daugherty Mays, Crickard, Windal, Lougee, r.h., i.h., Mocek O'Day, Moridabotz Gilligan, Forbes, Page, Morris, f.b. f.b., Shea...
...faculty is throwing its weight about a little too promiscuously--and the prompt announcement of the discovery in print. I am profoundly ignorant of the situation exposed by Mr. Breaksbread and Mr. Marlow, and quite unable to pass judgment on their exposition. Certainly, their poem is amusing and their gay malice irresistible. An editorial suggests some hesitation, on the part of the board. None, it seems to me, is called for. The production justifies itself; it voices a typical Harvard impatience, whether well or ill founded makes no difference, and directs a perfectly legitimate undergraduate criticism at a subject...