Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lawyer Hogan, the dapper "million-dollar fee" man who defended Oilmen Doheny and Fall against the U. S. in the gay 1920's. got off a lively attack on the abuse of citizens' rights by Federal enforcement officers. Excerpt...
Katharine Drexel's Uncle Anthony J. ("Dandy Tony") became an international figure, fond of expensive yachts. Cousin Margaretta married the impoverished Viscount Maidstone (now Earl of Winchilsea & Nottingham). Cousin Anthony J. Jr. espoused Marjorie Gould, daughter of gay George Jay and niece of another pious socialite, Helen Gould (Mrs. Finley Johnson Shepard). Other Drexels were much in the world. Not so the daughters of Francis Anthony. Katharine read Helen Hunt Jackson's A Century of Dishonor, toured the West with Elizabeth to find out how Indians were cared for. She found things even worse than the book...
...grace, and so does the romping fantasy, "'Tis a glorious thing, I ween, to be a Regular Royal Queen." The right note of plaintiveness without nagging is reached in Tessa and Gianetta's advice to their departing husbands, "It's understood you will be good, and not too gay . . . and not address a lady less than forty-five...
...strips on which the Metropolitan advertises its performances. To her, more than to anyone else, so great a success seemed fabulous. Only a few months before she had been singing with a second-rate opera company in Montpellier on the Riviera, wondering whether to follow the advice of Maria Gay, an oldtime Carmen who had stopped at the opera house and urged her to go to Manhattan so that Giulio Gatti-Casazza could hear...
...stiff and remarkably comprehensive map requirements." The very complexity of detail considered robs the study and survey of much of its possible value. Interpretation of History is barely mentioned in the first half, only faintly considered in a few of the second term lectures, notably those of Professor Gay on the industrial Revolution, and actually discussed only in the final lecture...