Word: gay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strip her of her white robe, leave it on the altar and cover her with a black one, blacker than any sin. Margarete Matzenauer will be the Goddess Vesta, she who sends her lightning bolt to rekindle the holy fire, she who herself forgives La Vestale before a marriage gay with singing and dancing...
Artist Spencer, though a Harvard man, never cared for Boston. He was born in Harvard, Neb., lives now in New Hope, Pa., has studied under Chase and Henri, is a member of the National Academy. His picture "Mountebanks and Thieves" depicts U. S. slum life with its gay devil-may-care foreground, and the gaunt bleak tenements, brooding, relentless in the background...
There was a welcome for Conductor Josef Willem Mengelberg, red-faced, genial, like a country doctor, and the concert .was on. There was the gay, graceful symphony of Johann Christian Bach, eleventh son of the mighty Johann Sebastian Bach; there was Beethoven's Eighth, droll, delightful, made side-splitting here and there by the heavy hand of Mynherr Mengelberg, there were excerpts from Berlioz's Damnation of Faust, "Minuet of Will-o'-the-Wisps," "Dance of the Sylphs" and the "Rakoczy March," and sandwiched in between, featured, a U. S. work, given its first Manhattan performance...
HARVARD 1930 WORCESTER ACAD. Fuller, l.e. r.e., Whalen Barrett, l.t. r.t., Truden Ticknor, l.g. r.g., Packard Bigelzw, e. e., Henshaw Fordyee, r.g. l.g., McKee Storey, r.f. l.t., Sargisson Lewis, r.e. l.e., Forsberg Wetmore, q.b. q.b., Hewitt Holbrook, l.h.b. r.h.b., Gay Mason, r.h.b. l.h.b., Hall Hitch, f.b. f.b., Harvey...
...flippancy to hide its real concern, others fell to figuring out who the pamphleteer might be. It seemed obvious that his name did not matter, but that (by internal evidence) he was 1) a socially unsuccessful classmate of Mr. Whitney's; 2) someone with a grudge, albeit a gay one, for the Harvard history department; 3) an intimate of the secretaries and other underlings of Harvard officials; 4) a clever Jew with a nose for the sensational...