Word: gay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...merry rooters climbed up an elevation known as Tightwad Hill, which overlooks the field, and from which every play can be seen as clearly as if you were sitting on a slab of cement you had paid three dollars for. So the two camps-the purseproud and the gay-waved flags at each other, while down on the green parchesi-board the two teams wavered up and down until Washington...
...Were Gay for Crimson...
...bent, made a desperate effort to attend one such affair. What consternation must have been theirs, to find the roadway filled with freshman Rolls-Royces and Fords (the latter vastly in the majority!) Conceive their disappointment when the hall was found crammed with freshman dilettante, seeking like moths the gay light of Boston's social whirl. Imagine their despair upon finding the punchbowl completely emptied by the thirsty lads from Gore...
...return for just one evening to the old life. Diamonds and champagne and gypsy music stifle the stolid virtues of the prosperous granary. The trip is, however, accomplished without immoderate-moral mishap, and her only difficulty is in explaining to her husband the next morning the presence of two gay dogs who have brought the cafe band to play under her rural windows as the sun comes...
When Edwin Justus Mayer announced his play to New York playgoers, with Benvenuto Cellini as the principal character, the reviewers expected a dull and serious historical drama. Instead, they discovered an amusing farce, shot through with satire, which deals with Cellini in his youth as, "a gay blade, a likeable braggart, a great artist and a favorite with the ladies," writes one of its reviewers...