Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aside from the incongruity of virile football songs poured out over Rudy's near-treble tonsils, our curiosity is engaged by reason for the Connecticut Yankee's grudge against Princeton. In the case of Yale, it is evident that he is wreaking his revenge for the gay abandon with which New Haven men break into riots when his voice sobs across the quadrangles from the radio or phonograph of an uninitiated...
...NATIVE-Jack Oakie, the backbone of a slapstick frame dressed up with one or two gay songs...
...from themes submitted in English A. Mr. Balch called attention to the imagination brought to bear in a theme about the Great Emancipator, by a Freshman Gamaliel Bradford who wrote, "Abe Lincoln, his big feet more than filling the shoes of his weak-kneed predecessor, Buchanan, stepped into that gay, social whirl of guile and graft at Washington with a threatening warcloud darkening the Southern horizon." Another budding historian explained that "Queen Elizabeth was by this time firmly entrenched on her throne...
...Gay Bromberg, who was sent to the College Infirmary yesterday with a bad cold, returned to the lineup this afternoon and worked out with the varsity. He will be able to play in the game Saturday and this brings the Indian forward wall to its full strength...
...made up of 31 players and the manager, John H. Reno of Macomb, Ill, Captain Andres, of Newton, is responsible for all conduct in the room at meal hours. To assist him in his duties be has appointed "Chucker" Crehan, Roxbury right tackle, as monitor. When the fellows feel gay sometimes and are seized with an urge to throw potato skins or pieces of bread from one table, to another, the stern voice of "Chuck" can be heard above the rest; "Sorry fellows, but I'm monitor" and the firing ceases...