Word: gay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...merchant he managed to win a military scholarship and embraced the career of arms under the doomed Dragon Throne. When patriotic bombs began to pop, Chiang Kai-shek (then a stripling of 24) secured command of a revolutionary brigade in Shanghai and lived for several months the gay life of a looter, profligate ?drunken and debauched. Suddenly he cut short this spree and when convivial friends assembled to remonstrate he cried: ''You are my friends! My friends? Bah! I have given up your kind of life to give my real services to my country. . . . You are not MY friends...
...English will appear on November 1. This is the next book to be published by the Press and it will, be followed by such works as "Sit Thomas Malory" by Edward Hicks. "The Commonwealth and Restoration Stage" by Leslie Botson. Associate Professor of English in New York University. "John Gay's London" by William Henry Irving: "A Noble Rake the Life of Charles. Fourth Lord Mohun." by Robert S. Forsythe: "The Lance of Justice, a Semi-centennial History of the Legal Aid Society. 1876 to 1926' by John MacArthur Maguire, Professor of Law in Harvard University...
...following the initial steps taken by Professor Gay, Professor Taussig and Professor Young two years ago. Last year a good many theses written for two of these men on the New England economic situation were published, and the result is a real contribution to knowledge...
...would like to meet some one with whom I could talk a while. I am a girl 23 years of age, well educated, and am strongly possessed by the wanderlust. And-most lonely. GAY...
Centers: W. F. Brooks, C. C. Cunningham, Desmond Fitzgerald, W. O. Gay, Matthew Hale, W. B. Tratford...