Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gay Nineties photographs which illustrate many of the advertisements are obtained from Brown Bros., oldtime newsphoto agency of Manhattan. The picture of the young man in the "Faery Soap" ad of the current issue ("Whoops! I'm just curazy about Faery Soap!") was taken from a French postcard...
Professor E. F. Gay, professor of Economic History, will conduct the services in the Faculty Room of University Hall at 8.45 o'clock this morning...
...this week the speakers will be as follows: today, E. F. Gay, Professor of Economic History; tomorrow, President Lowell; Wednesday, Rococo Pound, Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence and Dean of the Faculty of Law; Thursday, R. C. Cabot '89, Professor of Clinical Medicine and Professor of Social Ethics; Friday, Dean A. C. Hanford; and Saturday, J. H. Ropes '89, Hollis Professor of Divinity and Dexter Lecturer on Biblical Literature...
...quarter-century ago, ladies developed an enthusiasm for huge, beplumed headgear called "Merry Widow" hats. Their daughters now go in for cranial fillips known as Empress Eugenie hats, but The-Merry Widow, whence came their moth- ers' mode, is still tuneful and gay. Perhaps it is even more tuneful now, for a haunting nostalgia has crept into the lovely melodies of Franz Lehar...
President Hoover's Philippine assignment was hardly a welcome order for sportive Secretary Hurley, the youngest and most social member of the Cabinet. He had planned to go to Dublin for a gay August at the horse show. He always liked horse shows. At a pre-War one he met for the second time tall, attractive Ruth Wilson, daughter of Rear Admiral Henry Braid Wilson, as she was portraying Diana leading the chase. He remarked to a surprised friend: "Some day that girl is going to be Mrs. Hurley." The third time he saw her, he proposed. They were...