Word: gay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mixed over the etiquette of descending to greet the President which, as was pointed out, was not surprising considering that there is only one railway line in Abyssinia. Handshakes over, the Prince, "who is descended from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba," drove with the President through the gay streets of Paris. Parisiens are accustomed to having their plaudits acknowledged by even the most autocratic of rulers, but Ras and his gorgeously clad Marshals "batted not an eyelid" which quite intrigued the people and caused them to "vive" him more than ever. While in Paris the Prince occupied...
...Crowd. Estimated at 80,000, the biggest crowd ever to attend a U. S. race-meeting filled the stands and recently enlarged grounds of the Kentucky Jockey Club at Churchill Downs, near Louisville. A pleasing spectacle was made by the gay plumage of both sexes. The night before...
Then comes Cynthia?gay, wise, tender, apparently untouched by material standards. But in the end she also fails him?too much the product of her heritage and environment to escape them...
...nearly so wise. The other noon in company with William Lyon Phelps, Clayton Hamilton, Jesse Lynch Wil-liams?an ill-assorted but renowned trio ?I had an opportunity to talk with Professor Matthews. His anecdotes contain memories of Mark Twain, George Meredith, Oscar Wilde. Genial, kindly, brilliant, gay, stimulating, he is all things a literary gentleman should be. Somehow, and quite without seeming to patronize him, I want to take off my hat to Professor Brander Matthews...
Even five hundred years later, when the gay blades of the Regency astounded all London with their debonnaire deviltry, a newly-created title stood for something distinctly above the average. While the recipient did not necessarily have to be a military or political genius, he was at the very least a possessor of large and lucrative estates, or master of the royal foxhounds...