Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spring of 1917 the Corporation of Harvard University appointed a Committee on Economic Research, consisting of Professor Charles J. Bullock, chairman, Messrs. Charles F. Adams, '88, Nicholas Biddle, '00, Frederic H. Curtiss, '91, Wallace B. Donham, '98, Edwin F. Gay, Dean of the Business School, Ogden L. Mills, '05, and Eugene V. R. Thayer, '04, to whose number Mr. Robert Amory, '06, was later added. By that time the United States had entered the World War, and there could be no thought of securing endowment for a new scientific enterprise. It had been decided, however, that the first work...
...before them. Matisse spent enough time in the Louvre, copying Chardin and other Old Masters long before he began to do his own work. But his own work, so soon as he showed it in the Salon des Indépendents, made him the captain of a brave and gay brigade: André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, Emil Othon Friesz, Raoul Dufy and indisputably first among them, Henri Matisse...
...very different was the policy of the French from that of the Spanish. The importation of Negroes continued and only a few Frenchmen settled on plantations in the country or built mansions for themselves in the towns. Theirs was a gay life; social affairs were elaborate and highly organized; beautiful women minuetted with white-wigged planters or, drawn by the soft air and the bright moon, flirted on the cool terraces...
SMETANA'S QUARTET IN E MINOR, by the Flonzaley Quartet (Victor, $6.50)- The Flonzaleys exist now only on records. The Smetana is neatly balanced, its moods, gay and foreboding, clearly defined...