Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day the Governors and their ladies journeyed to Washington to be dined at the White House. Minnesota's gay Farmer-Laborite Olson, who had waved from the Richmond rostrum to an unidentified woman as the band played the national anthem, missed the dinner. Reporters found him at the Powhatan Hotel, caught in "the press of official business...
Stokowski's performance and Koussevitzky's were typical. Stokowski's was brilliant, electric. Koussevitzky's had more elegance, more finesse. Ravel's music was equally characteristic. There was a gay, light beginning in which the piano took the lead while the orchestra shimmered all around it, a slow movement lengthily developed and embroidered, a quick finale discreetly syncopated. All of it was the glittering, impersonal kind of music that people have come to associate with the Ravel so notedly fastidious about his neckties, his pastries, his home-grown hot-house flowers. Bostonians liked the soloing...
...before or ever will feel again, when you almost decide to call up the girl you met at the Somerset in December, when the world goes round, and birds sing, and girls laugh, and colors are bright, and the earth steams, and bands play, and life seems full and gay and ecstatic and you feel empty, and dull, and sodden, why then," he said, "It's Spring...
Just as though wizened little St. Gandhi had never existed, India's Viceroy, his long legs encased in white kerseymere knee breeches, drove smiling through the streets of New Delhi to open the eleventh annual session of the Chamber of Princes. Bearded lancers with gay fluttering pennons trotted in front of his State carriage. A bodyguard perched behind holding a huge umbrella over the viceregal head...
These members in addition to Dean Holmes are R. Buckinham, lecturer at the School of Education; W. F. Dearborn, director of the psycho-educational clinic of the Graduate School; C. M. Cambell, professor of Psychiatry; E. L. Chafee, Professor of Physics; Felix Frankfurter, professor of Administrative Law; E. F. Gay, professor of Economic History; C. H. Grandgent '83, professor of Romance Languages; M. O. Hudson, professor of International Law; P. J. Sachs '00, associate director of the Fogg Art Museum; F. G. Peabody, professor of Theology, emeritus; S. W. Sperry, dean of the Theological School; Dr. Alfred Worcester '78, Henry...