Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps because he is an unpolished writer, Engineer Walter Arnold Rukeyser is bluntly convincing. He wrings the reader's heart by telling how the hearts of himself and wife were wrung when the merciless Gay-pay-oo (Soviet Secret Service) would seize and carry off, perhaps to Death, some Russian engineer with whom Mr. Rukeyser had worked. Relating how he had to point out the honest mistakes of one such Russian engineer to a Soviet technical authority, Engineer Rukeyser writes: "I felt as though I had killed...
...Connor, Colonel and Mrs. L. C. Brinton, Colonel and Mrs. Grant, Colonel and Mrs. O. L. Spaulding, and Colonel and Mrs. W. F. Sturgill for the Military Department; and Commander R. C. Williams and Mrs. B. Wygant, Captain C. A. Abele, Captain and Mrs. J. B. Gay, Lieutenant Commander and Mrs. C. S. Alden, and Lieutenant Commander and Mrs. Glutting for the Naval Department.MISS LILLIAN ROTH...
...Professor Guy Stanton Ford; Professor Fredrick Artz; Professor W. L. Langer '15; Professor Robert Binkley; Professor Carleton Hayes, of Columbia University; Professor S. B. Fay '06; Professor Charles Seymour of Yale; and Professor William Lingelbach. An additional volume on the economic revolution will be written by Professor E. F. Gay, professor of Economic History
...General and Mrs. Fox Conner, Colonel and Mrs. Grant, Colonel and Mrs. O. L. Spaulding, and Colonel and Mrs. W. F. Sturgill for the Military Department; and Admiral and Mrs. W. S. Sims, Commander R. C. Williams, Captain and Mrs. C. A. Abele, Captain and Mrs. J. B. Gay, and Lieutenant Commander and Mrs. C. S. Alden for the Naval Department...
Died. Friedrich August III, 66, onetime gay king of Saxony; of heart disease; in his castle, Sibyllenort, near Breslau, Silesia. Unconventional, Catholic, he was popular with his Protestant subjects. While he was crown prince, his wife, onetime Archduchess of Austria, eloped with the French tutor of his royal children. When the German Republic was proclaimed in 1918, he was asked by telephone whether he would abdicate willingly. Said he: "Oh, well, I suppose I'd better." Several years later, cheered by a crowd in a railroad station, he stuck his head out the window and shouted...