Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time training will be provided for professional writing of novels, stories, plays, verse, and criticism. This will be carried on by Professor Robert M. Gay of Simmons College...
James Le B. Boyle II, 1936, in "Miseries and Vanities" winks and blinks and nods at several aspects of Harvard Society. He smiles at Mr. Schlesinger's rally for democracy, but too often does he bemuse when he means to be gay. He has a gift for phrase; and, when under control, he communicates his point, quote: "If only all students were 'great men', all would be well. But alas, many are not, and in them indifference is no true neutral, philosophical calm, no objective judgment, but rather a petty reserve which too often excludes its possessor from lively interests...
...marriage of Baxter and Myrna Loy, he a conscientious, hard-working architect; and she apparently a conventionally affectionate young bride. As the show progressed Baxter remained true to his original type, and to this added occasional drunken sprees which involved him, rather innocently, though not deeply with a gay young thing named Kitty. Naturally this brought chastisement from his wife. But she failed to realize that incidents of this kind only occurred when she was away in Maine having a good time "before she was ninety" and he in New York working over a drafting table from one year...
Tercentenary Theatre Gay...
Eighty bright colored flags and banners, predominantly crimson and white have turned the Yard, one of the University's most famous possessions, into a gay festival eaclosure, the gayest in its long history...