Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston were many battle-maimed U. S. heroes. But the great majority of American Legionaries never saw front-line action, are now unscarred, robust men in the prime of life. Therefore when 70,000 of them get together to play soldier again it is like a gigantic college reunion, gay, colorful, sometimes ribald. Last week hoodlums took advantage of the occasion to overturn motors, build bonfires, fisticuff in the streets. Lo-cal hospitals treated 358 persons for liquor poisoning; one Legionary and his wife died of this cause. Patients were treated for wounds contracted from being hit by, sitting...
...Lawrence in a supreme intimacy. "What Men Want", the other theatre offering, is a superb compendium on the whole question. Disguise it, as the producer attempts to do, with the facial expressions of the sophisticated and the dialogue of a gangster melodrama, embarrass it with one long and gay party after another, what men want is still "It", is the humble impression gleaned from a thoroughly unenlightened hour in the fifth row. Cynicism, real live raciness, speed, boredom, naivete, a boy and a girl on horseback, and several admittedly clever studio shots are all hurled thither...
...operated to the disadvantage of many men of low average intelligence but otherwise fully endowed with strong character, personality and other desirable traits. The University is beginning to hear complaints along this line from alumni who found no trouble in earning their gentleman's C's in the gay nineties but whose sons are in the process of flunking out or haven't even succeeded in passing the entrance exams...
...stage show is, if you like that sort of thing, fairly satisfactory. The Gay Gordons, Clyde Cook; and a fellow named Oliver rather brought up the average. Though the jokes of the last-named wavered always on the edge of plain coarseness. Cook is good, and the Gordons put on a novelty program which is distinctly refreshing...
...little success as a prolific writer of western thrillers for the Beadle & Adams publications. He was nearing the end of his rope of ideas when in 1895 Street & Smith, publishers, proposed the juvenile series about a single character who "should have a name like Dick Lightheart, Jack Harkaway, Gay Dashleigh." Author Patten, aspiring to be a playwright, seized upon the plan as a "potboiler." He conceived his hero: "His face was frank, open and winning but the merry light that . . . dwelt in his eyes. . . ." Frank Merriwell was born April...