Word: gay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mentioned at all in the United States by A. P., Universal or United Press; she is not red-headed but blonde; she is not the daughter but granddaughter of the late U. S. Senator Bankhead (Ala. D.). Whether she "was robbed for a moment of her gay and civilized exuberance" is problematical but doubtful...
...business of advertising is to define appetites and to encourage their satisfaction. Hence it is reasonable to suppose that when advertising men hold a convention they will be sensitive to the wants of their delegates and quick to supply them. They will be, one should suppose, gay and business-like at the same time: "nothing too much ' will be their motto and tired of the exaggerations which it is sometimes their business to invent, they will be happy in normal fashion, without drums and songs and blatant rallies...
Tallulah Bankhead, red-headed daughter of the late U. S. Senator Bankhead, an actress with an ecstatic London following, was robbed for a moment of her gay and civilized exuberance by an event which was like a threatening whisper in the dark. A man had jumped off the steamship Rochambeau, at night, into the Atlantic Ocean. The steamship had turned around in her course and sent a lifeboat to find him in the black wilderness of waves. When found, the man, nervous, apologetic, was carried to the deck and helped through a crowd of frightened passengers to his stateroom...
...feeble fable held no interest for the gay dogs of Broadway; yet, when they scorned it, Producer Davis took pity on them. "It has a message for you," he said, and offered free seats to any who would have them. Almost no one could believe that a man would willingly throw away money upon Broadway without hope of return. He threw away $750,000. "Advertising," said many. "Dopey," said others...
...knowledge if not a thorough appreciation of the College. Nothing drives this home more forcibly than the annual Class Day. To the casual observer it might appear merely another day of meaningless jubilation and glamorous festivity, superficial and transitory. To the initiated, to those who can penetrate beneath the gay laughter, the forced smiles, the whirl and blaze of confetti and streamers, is revealed a deep insight into a romantic trend in the history of Harvard...