Word: gay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...platform towering by the hulk's bow chatted a gay party. In the fore were Secretary and Mrs. Wilbur (TIME, Apr. 6) ; Mrs. Wilbur's sister, Mrs. Paist of Wayne, Pa., and Mr. Paist; Admirals Eberle, Moffett, Jones, Bloch, J. K. Robison and their wives; General and Mrs. Lejeune. Mrs. Wilbur's left arm was hidden beneath American Beauty roses. Her right arm grasped a beribboned bottle of Saratoga mineral water. Presently Mr. Wilbur exhorted his wife...
...young man and turn him into a rythmic accounting machine, and then feed him as so much raw material into the steel factories, the aluminum factories, the 'widget factories', and the stool chairs of commercial life. Fond Fathers instruct sons to eat and be merry in their gay college years for there is serious business ahead...
...gay and irrepressible residents of Randolph Hall have the athletic habit of dropping over the iron fence, rather than seeking to move the colossal front door. Such extra-curriculum activity has almost resulted in a little playful shooting up and down Linden Street. Several late entrances have been effected only with long and harried explanations. No one minds a little gun play now and then but why can't both sides shoot...
...dining halls had made him a chronic dyspeptic; in short, life was dull. It was at this time that romance came into his life with young Betty Buxom. From the very first kiss they loved each other passionately. Then followed midnight swimming parties at Revere, so gay, so free, so So. One night, however, when they were frolicking about like water babies, Charles discovered to his great grief and joy, by an authentic mole under the left shoulder-blade, that beautiful Betty was his long-lost grandmother...
...committee, made up of Frank B. Jewett, electrical engineer, of New York, chairman; Professor Edwin F. Gay, of the Economics Department; and Professor W. J. V. Osterhaut, of the Botany Department made awards amounting to $44,000 dollars for the first year and about $14,000 for the second year...