Word: gay
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...with great fanfare held a preliminary competition last spring to select the personnel of his course from the throngs of undergraduates and the graduates of "Harvard, Yale, and Pomona who besieged the doors of Hollis 11 last year, the course has since been transferred to Professor Robert M. Gay of Simmons College, an instructor of no small reputation, whose textbook on composition, "Writing Through Reading," is considered as satisfactory as it is possible for a textbook on such a subject to be. Although robbed of Professor Copeland's highly diverting presence, the members of English 5 seem assured of competent...
Henceforth, English 5 will be given by Professor R. M. Gay, of Simmons College. In the place of his former course. Professor Copeland will undertake the teaching of a new course, English 45, dealing with the lives, characters, and times of men of letters, English and American...
...about $15,000. A committee was appointed to advise the Corporation in making a selection among the investigations proposed by any member of the instructing scientific or administrative staff of the University. The committee has consisted of F. B. Jewett, electrical engineer of New York, chairman; Professor E. F. Gay, Hon. '18, of the Economics Department, and Professor W. J. V. Osterhout, of the Department of Botany...
...news would have hooted through Florence like a high wind, whipping the scarlet soutanes of cardinals up around their knees, blowing fear into the faces of swart gonfaloniers, and scuttling down lonely corridors to pry under the doors of gay and gracious gentlewomen ? whisk! up the coverlet, into the closet and out of the window...
...ditty .entitled, Be My Charm Mama, and I'll Be Your Soda Pop. But alas! there are no such songs. For this production, not a musical comedy, seeks to explore further the vein of Merton of the Movies, The Show Off-to be gracious, tactful, gay- in short, to be charming. The first act-the most amusing first act of the current season-achieves this, but in the second the plot lifts its girlie-girlie face, and ghosts of the unsung ballads interrupt the accomplished small-town gabbing of Maidel Turner, and the adept gaucheries of Drug Clerk Kenneth...