Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Revolt in Reverse," the annual production of Pi Eta Club, which goes on for the last time tonight, is perhaps typical of college theatricals. It is gay, noisy, colorful, and no more vulgar than the circumstances warrant. The total stranger is amused; enjoyment increases in direct proportion to the number of acquaintances in the cast and approaches ecstasy in the case of club members...
Among the gay first-rowers at last night's performance was Miss Ann Marsters, becomingly clad in black chiffon with a black velvet bow in her hair. She wore a corsage of red roses...
...heard the charges against Dick Whitney and then preferred the Exchange's most serious accusation - "conduct apparently contrary to just and equitable principles of trade." Next morning, well knowing it might mean the end of the Exchange's claim that it requires no added SEC supervision, President Gay grimly mounted the rostrum of the Exchange and suspended Richard Whitney & Co. for insolvency (TIME, March 14). Wall Street's first reaction was outright incredulity that "The Corner" had not bailed out its favorite broker. But it was speedily apparent that The House of Morgan had known nothing...
Spotting the Princeton team two goals on the basis of past performances, the unbeaten Crimson team of Captain Skiddy Von Stade, Gay Dillingham, and Ben Forbes fought an uphill battle all the way. The unexpected arrival of Captain Bob Eisner from his home in Indiana bolstered the Orange and Black, the best-mounted team the Poloists have crossed mallets with this year...
...making present-day problems of personal interest to the men along the River. In time such teams would inevitably make themselves a part of the House tradition, and lend to each of the seven a name as much to be desired as a reputation for good football teams or gay dances...