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Word: gay (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Butler Wright, Assistant Secretary of State, immaculate in cutaway, ushered into the Blue Room at the White House, where the President, also in afternoon dress, was waiting, a gay troup. At their head was Emile Daeschner, new Ambassador from France. Behind M. Daeschner, came his staff all in uniform of the French Diplomatic service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Clear Understanding | 2/9/1925 | See Source »

First there will be old Josiah Quincy Sr., 1790, president of Harvard College, represented by Harry H. Gay of the Footlight Club. Dr. Bigelow, the famous physician, will be represented by George W. Wilson of the Boston Museum stock company, while the dignified figure of Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1829, will live again in Leon H. Connell of Emerson College. Among the other guests will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DICKENS TO LIVE AND DINE AGAIN IN BOSTON | 2/2/1925 | See Source »

...night in Vienna. In the gay cabarets where the white lights blazed stolid German waiters were relieving the overburdened pocketbooks of carefree American tourists, gaining in the halls of pleasure what they had lost on the fields of battle. But on the little side street by the water-front, not far from the Franz-Josef bridge, there were no bright lights. There was only the faint glow from the garret window of a weather-beaten old house, where, working far into the night, a busy scholar was translating Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" into Albanian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fan Noli Discards Political Role for That of Author and Ahmed Zogu Reports "All Quiet Along the Adriatic" | 2/2/1925 | See Source »

...Significance. Mr. Isman's narrative is like an old music-hall tune played on a street organ. On and on it jingles, sad and gay, the song of the lives of those two derbied, Semitic Pierrots who still posture sadly, gayly, under a calcium moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vaudevillainy | 1/26/1925 | See Source »

...Lect. Hall Mr. Epstein, D, G, R, X Harvard 6 Mr. Heath, H. S. V Harvard 5 Mr. Mason, N, T Harvard 2 Mr. Opie, M, O New Lect. Hall Mr. Taylor, E, L, U New Lect. Hall Economics 4a Allen-Fordyce Sever 17 Gay-Olt Sever 18 Parker-Zisclman Sever 23 English 63a Almy-Chan Sever 5 Cluett-Gohdes Sever 6 Goodspeed-Koch Sever 7 Lockwood-Potts Sever 3 Pratt-Young Sever 11 Fine Arts 1a Fogg Lect. Rm. Fine Arts 2b Fogg Small Rm. French 1, I, II, III Prof, Hawkins, 1 Sever 24 Mr. Kelsey, 2 Sever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MID-YEAR EXAMS WILL BEGIN THIS MORNING | 1/22/1925 | See Source »

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