Word: gay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meantime in the gay French metropolis fierce gendarmes with black, twirled mustachios and bright clanking swords, sat meekly, puzzled, over little books of English Made Easy. "Ah, how fine it would be to tell a U. S. legionnaire, who had enquired, 'Ou est Place Pigalle?' 'Straight ahead, buddy...
...month ago John Early, leper, escaped from the Government lep-rosaria at Carville, La. When he reached his home in the North Carolina mountains, his mother, gay at her son's return, refused to tell Federal officers his whereabouts (TIME, Aug. 22). Matt Early, the leper's brother, found a hiding-place in the hills; there, for over three weeks John Early remained, his hideous, white, terrified face peering through the brambles for men he knew would come. In his hands he held a rifle...
CONFLICTS?Stefan Zweig?Viking Press ($2.50). Stefan Zweig, talented globe-trotter and literary dilettante, was shaken by the War out of gay indolence at Vienna into mapping out two series of ambitious literary projects which he has since pursued with a vigor and skill that has brought him high rank, before his 50th year, among the authors of all Europe. One series is biography?spiritual portraits (of the type done by Gamaliel Bradford in the U. S.) of Balzac, Dickens, Dostoievsky, Nietzsche, Tolstoy (so far). The second series, to which the three stories in this volume belong, consists of novelettes...
Bookman. Formerly owned by George H. Doran's publishing firm, the Bookman was what is known in the trade as a house organ. It was recently purchased by private capital for Burton Rascoe, editor. The new magazine has a gay cafe au lait cover. Inspection of its con- tents, leads critics to suspect that (like Harper's, the Atlantic Monthly, etc.) the Bookman is feeling the sharp spur of the American Mercury in the sluggish sides of thoughtful periodical publishing in the U. S. Among the articles is one by John Farrar, whose editorship (starting in 1921) brought the Bookman...
...Gay, after marrying Alan, gets Jerry back from Dolly on the rebound, helping him terminate a trial ride on the water wagon. Then Jerry's car, "the loudest roar in the Roaring Forties," and too much whiskey, balance her accounts for her. Jerry is not so attractive with a leg cut off. And the lacerations on Gay's lovely little throat are not nearly so costly as the fractures in her reputation, the smear on her soul. She is fairly lucky to find a market for the remains of her "class" in a night club...