Word: gay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tentative plan calls for some six lectures. One will be on business as a career, and will be delivered by Mr. E. F. Gay, LL.D. '18, president of the New York Evening Post Company and former Dean of the Business School. Dr. W. S. Thayer '85, physician in chief of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, who is an Overseer, is scheduled to speak on the opportunities in medicine surgery, and pub- lic health. It is hoped to have an address on the law as a career, one on teaching and the ministry, and one on the engineering professions. The speakers...
...Gay's Beggar's Opera" took London by surprise and fifty years later it was still a favorite theme for polite dispute. The occasion on which Johnson coined this mouth-filling dictum is memorable for another reason; -- the attentive Boswell for once disagreed with his master's defense of the play, and declared "the gaiety and heroines of a highwayman very captivating to a youthful imagination", and a temptation which "it requires a cool and strong judgment to resist". Boswell was not alone in his brave opposition; no loss a figure than Edmund Burke "thought the literary merit...
...have become interested in the man himself, as well as his idea. If he can perform the miracles of healing which are sometimes attributed to him--although in his own words. "I have healed nobody", he denies it--the success is largely through the influence of his personality. A "gay, whimsical man", he can, in a few sentences, carry away a patient to complete forgetfulness of self, or make him laugh at the very thought of being sick...
Fine Arts.--"The Beggar's Opera", by John Gay, 1728. Last week of a delightful archaism. The music alone has won it many "repeaters...
Melville: Life and Letters of John Gay...