Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although light comedy is awfully good fun for the middle-aged audiences, one rather wearies of the eternally gay manner in which so many young sophisticated married couples trifle with the monogamic marriage...
...expressive, every look, significant. He is as much of a born actor, and arch rogue as John Barrymore. He carries off the part of the dilletante bachelor as well as Alfred Lunt were the uniform of the exiled Prince Rudolph Maximillian Von Hapsburg. But "Springtime for Henry" lacks the gay flavor and dramatic excitement that made "Reunion in Vienna" one of the most popular of the Guild offerings in the last two years...
...quit his job, survived the duel, married Damaris. Action cured him of doubt: by the time Beauregard's guns had opened on Fort Sumter Peter was in uniform too. After two sweet months with Damaris he rode off with his comrades to their gay cavalier war. One authentic incident of Sumters bloodless siege which Author Heyward has dug up may be news even to some Charlestonians. One Louis Tresvant Wigfall. ex-Senator from Texas, had offered his em barrassingly fire-eating services to General Beauregard, had been assigned to a battery on James Island. At the height...
Edwin Francis Gay, professor of Economic History, will conduct the services this morning at 8.45 o'clock in Appleton Chapel of the Memorial Church...
...Bacon '95, who likens the present Glee Club to a German Manner Gesang Verein devoting itself seriously to ambitious music. For this reason it is advocated that the Glee Club surrender its little to some other group of Harvard singers who will represent more closely the gay, gleesome choristers of the Nineties, with their frivolous glees of wine, women, and song...