Word: gay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grim conditions of modern industry frustrating human life at every turn, of health happiness and love succumbing to start necessity. Fom first to last the play is naturally and convincingly acted. The lovers by Miss Dorothy Waterman and Mr. Robert Cushing the workman who was once so gay and now returns to beg for his old job, still trying pathetically to keep up his price, by Laurence Rittenband...
...intellectual advancement, these sceptics are nevertheless wrong, and in proof of this the vagabond has determined to learn about the Amalgamation of Banking in England since 1880. To find out about this he must turn his steps toward Harvard 1 at 9 o'clock to hear Professor Gay's talk on this subject. The vagabond has just reached the stage at which he has found out enough about economics to desire a more complete knowledge in that field. The rise of banking in England from its small beginnings in the 15th century is one of the most remarkable stories...
This is the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad's centenary year - good cause, it might be said, for the gay decorating of a score of new, clean locomotives that snuggled their cowcatchers to the rails last week The engines were painted olive green, the color of B. & O. passenger coaches. Besides using green for the black paint, that has been standard with locomotive users since 1878, the painter striped each machine with gold and red bands. Also, on each cab, in three-inch gilt letters, was the name of a U. S. President, from President Washington to President Arthur.† This...
There will also be first edition of John Gay's "Beggars' Opera," "Polly," and "Trivia," Beckford's "Vathek," a Thackery's "Vanity Fair," with a suppressed plate, Oscar Wilde's first French edition of, Salome with an inscription giving it to Degas, and "Lord Chesterfield's Letters." These are merely a few of the first editions that will be shown...
...been the vogue. They combine fascination and sportsmanship, but not ladylike morals and manners. Now comes Freya Von Herrenstein trying bravely to be both a gentleman and a lady. For ten years she passes as her dead twin brother, Kurt-at home, at military school, in the Uhlans, in gay 19th Century Vienna. Love, of course, is the deity referred to by the title. The report, "Missing in action," is her prothalamium. . . . Author Waring is not just clever. He writes with scrupulous attention to his main obligations-sharp characters, vivid atmosphere, swift plot and plenty of it. Grant...