Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beautiful a site as Treasure Island, just inside California's breath-taking Golden Gate, with the world's most awe-inspiring bridges stretching over and away from it. And San Franciscans have wisely chosen to make their fair gemlike rather than gigantic, compact (400 acres*), serene and gay. With one of America's few charming cities for its sponsor, GGIE may make history by being really pleasant to attend instead of just grandiose and exciting...
...Without Gay Dillingham and Pete Rumsey the combination of Captain Ben Forbes, Warwick Stabler and ben Dillingham has a handicap of only four goals against Yale...
...team Major Sargent has selected to face the Yale malletmen is composed of: Bennett Forbes at number one, Ben Dillingham at number two, and Warwick Stabler or Cain Burrage at defense. This lineup is not the strongest stringers, Gay Dillingham and Pate Rumsey, are on the sick list. Major Sargent explained the seriousness of the loss when he said that the absence of one man on a three-man polo outfit is like the loss of four men to a football team...
...long after writing this book, Odon von Horvath was walking along the Champs Elysees in Paris. The usual crowd was all around him, straining against a high wind. It was June, and the trees were gay and green with their new foliage-except for one huge, dying chestnut tree. A sudden gust swept against it. It tottered, cracked, started to fall. Von Horvath, preoccupied, did not hear the people scream as he walked into its shadow. The dead tree crushed him dead, and Odon von Horvath had his wish...
Boston's distinguished elite, including ex-Governor James M. Curley, last night noisily applauded (and noisily repeated jokes to deaf companions) as John Holden presented Gertrude Lawrence in the gay, smooth-running comedy "Susan and God" at the Shubert Theatre...