Word: gay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gay Nineties...
...smile with which "Dear Brutus" had once captured gay New York--and then--"But, my dear, you know, I was acting away for all I was worth when I looked around and the curtain had come down. One can not always "strut his hour" not on a Boston stage." The severest critic retreated...
...Connecticut", rendered by the Banjo Club, The Mandolin Club offers among other numbers Delibes' "Intermezzo from Naila" and "The Song of the Volga Boatmen." The Vocal Club will render the famous "Drinking Song" from the "Student Prince", "In an Old-Fashioned Town", and a medley of songs of the gay nineties...
...United States Railroad History and Government Aid before 1860," Professor Gay, Harvard 1. Economics...
...HOUSE OF SIMPLICITY- Ethel Davis Seal-Century ($3). Let the reader ignore just what he might expect to find in such a book, namely a gushing stream of female adjectives like "quaint," "gay," "charming," "piquant," "tiny," "dear," "darling," "lovely," "thrilling," "adorable," -and here is a very good book indeed for discovering a myriad handy ways and inexpensive means of accomplishing effects in interior decoration, to which the overworked adjectives listed above are perhaps irresistibly applicable. There is, of course, a heart-rending chapter on "Antiques for a Song," consisting largely of anecdotes, but there is also a cheerful chapter, highly...