Word: gay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dean in charge of Juniors and Seniors. Mr. David M. Little '18 will continue as assistant dean for the Class of 1926, which next year will be the Sophomore class. Mr. Delmar Leighton '19 will be assistant dean in charge of records, taking the place of Mr. Edward R. Gay '19, who is leaving the University to become secretary of the National Council of Schools of Religion. Mr. Philip P. Chase '00, at present assistant dean in charge of Sophomores, is leaving the dean's office next year to give his full time to teaching in the history department...
...committee in charge consists of Hon, Theodore E. Burton of Washington; Professor J. B. Clark of Columbia University; President Edwin F. Gay of the New York Evening Post; Professor Wesley C. Mitchell of Columbia University; and Professor Laurence Laughlin of the University of Chicago...
Pride. The French, one remembers, are a gay and polite people, fond of dancing and light wines. Perhaps if they saw more of the English and American plays that are written about them they would be neither so polite nor so gay. At any rate, in most American drama, the French male character who is old enough to have a crêpe-beard has, in general, the choice between just two roles. He is always noble, and if he does not display his noblesse oblige by pursuing the chaste young heroine around and around the room with the scarlet...
Among the more important revivals of the London season are Pinero's The Gay Lord Quex and Sudermann's Magda. The latter was played by Sarah Bernhardt in 1895, and Duse, then in London, put it on a few days later. Within a year Mrs. Pat Campbell also gave it, and the records of these three performances were preserved for posterity by Bernard Shaw in his Dramatic Opinions and Essays...
...occasionally encounter Henry B. Fuller, one of the quietest and most significant figures in the progress of American letters. There is the University of Chicago, with its Robert Herrick, whose Homely Lilla brings him back to fiction after several years of silence. There is Evanston, with Keith Preston, the gay columnist and gayer Greek professor, with Henry Kitchell Webster and Edwin Balmer, both popular novelists. There is Schlogel's, chiefly picturesque as a cafe by reason of pre-prohibition memories, where gather the denisons of The Chicago Daily News, where one may find Harry Hanson, the Heywood Broun of Chicago...