Word: gay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There were lots of good paintings, lots of polite portraits, lots of neat landscapes for them to look at. The gay visitors passed these quickly, laughing and talking; then they stopped, suddenly silent, to look at six sorrowful paintings made by a madman...
Most monkeys are gay & cheerful, but the proboscis monkey from Malaysia and the howling monkey from the tropics are a pair of supercilious snobs. Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars of the N. Y. Zoological Garden has kept a howling monkey for three years only by pampering and coddling it, keeping it in a fine special cage, with "Vitaglass" windows to admit the ultraviolet...
...through a jungle of opposition, active and passive, the scoffers were many. The purpose of a glee club was to keep up the college spirit, by a hearty, full-throated chorus of football and Alma Mater songs, with a few compositions regarded as sufficiently light and gay to please the ears of a gathering of people not overly interested in music...
...building comparatively young, as Harvard buildings go, and entirely outside the hallowed precincts of the Yard, Beck Hall has accumulated an extraordinary amount of tradition, and on more than one occasion has been saved from destruction by its sentimental associations. It saw its hey-day in the gay nineties when the more fact of residence within its walls constituted a mark of social distinction, and when many of the men who have since held high rank among Harvard graduates were associated with it. As a monument to the Harvard of twenty and thirty years ago Beck Hall will always live...
...name of Beck Hall can never be forgotten as long as the gay nineties and the great men linked with them hold a place in Harvard history; but for the building itself present undergraduates at least will be able to shed little more than a forced tear...