Word: gay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gay Nineties, the Naughty Nineties, the Nineties of the Yellow Book, these things were done well, these clever plays without any raison d'etre except their devilish cleverness. But in the decade of grace 1920-30 we seem to lack the flair. So it is small wonder that a play like "The Circle", which the Repertory players are presenting this week, should prove too much for its author, Somerset Maugham...
...Vermont, not far from Otter Creek, a river famed in history and much too hot a ride in a power beat on any August day. It has various inhabitants, varying in number according to the season. The main products are milk and wise cracks of the vintage of the gay nineties. The milk is very good. The most original feature of the landscape is the cemetery in which lie those two sires of even wortheir stock, Mr. Root and Mr. Beer--lie so near in fact that the names on their granite shafts make sense when read from left...
There are lectures, however, which I can think about between snuffles. Pro-Professor Gay in Harvard I will be giving a summary of the economic progress of the nineteenth century at 9 o'clock. At 11 o'clock, Professor Whitney will give the lecture which has the best chance to triumph over my weakened condition, in Emerson J. The Plelade Cement Marot, Montaigne and Pascal, great names of the high Renaissance in France, will be his subject.--Then there are at noon Professor Demos in Emerson A, on "Ethics as an Art," and Professor Hill in his Cast lecture...
...read several selections from the play itself which showed its satirization of Harvard men and customs. The play is broad and farcical in its tone and offers great possibilities to its present producers for parody on current Harvard life, as well as on the life of the much discussed "gay nineties...
...months ago smart pressmen crowded on shipboard about returning Dr. Lorenz. He looked chipper and gay. But the back-fence gossipers noted not his appearance. They wanted some slick phrase on which they could hang a story. Dr. Lorenz gave it to them: "Enjoy all vices in moderation." Fine! The phrase could be wrung into a salacious connotation. Far down in the story one could explain that the doctor meant that folk should work, play, sleep in moderation. The pressmen darted to their writing machines...