Word: gay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...satin and brocade, powdered wigs, billowing hoopskirts and lacy pantaloons, Smith College teachers and their consorts last week played at opera. In the gay frillery of Georg Friedrich Handel's time (1685-1759), instead of in Roman and Egyptian robes, they gave his nearly forgotten Julius Caesar its first U. S. showing. Professor Oliver Larkin staged the production; Professor Werner Josten directed...
...then he trieth to be gay, greeting all and sundry with a merry jest; but this, too, displeaseth some...
...Ernest. As sodden and pale as a 10?-portion of mashed potatoes is this musical comedy adaptation of Oscar Wilde's gay farce The Importance of Being Earnest. Wildian epigrams frolic beside such lines as "My Rolls is waiting; so is my coffee." Sometimes the dancing is agreeable...
...Gay has divided his book into sections, each representing a particular period of poetry, such as Elizabethan, Romantic, and so forth. After, the poetry of the Victorian era he places several selections to which he assigns the term "Eighteen-Eighties and Nineties", and which serve as a sort of prelude to the work of a more modern tone. Since these divisions are presumably purely chronological there should be no objection, but nevertheless there will be readers who will question the propriety of omitting Hardy and Housman from poets of the Twentieth Century, since the work of the former at least...
Such technicalities, however, cannot mar the excellence of the book as a whole. Its compact size, its wide variety--and the fine Essay on Poetry which Professor Gay has prefixed to his choices, should make it one of the most popular books of its type. As a collection of English and American verse from the Middle English period to the present time it is the best small book yet published...