Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past 30. Just when he abandoned his real name of Jacob Simon Herzig no one knows. His youth was punctured with one jail term for grand larceny and another for forging his father's name to a check. Shortly after the turn of the century he founded Maxim & Gay, "Turf Information Bureau," in Manhattan. His "information" was good and he often sold 5,000 tips a day at $5 each. Having a great love for the horses and no faith in his own tips, he soon dropped the $3,000,000 he had so quickly acquired. But he learned...
...been blasphemous. But not now. For these onetime gods of the U. S. scene twilight has come. If keepers of other people's money continue to lose caste at the present rate, "banker"' may some day be an insult. And some future Lytton Strachey will have a gay time humanizing the pre-1929 financiers to less than lifesize. Such a student of the period will list in his bibliography this lurid sketch of Author Winkler's on the Stillman family and what was once their National City Bank. A garish specimen of the oleographic school of portraiture...
...Georgia, CWA was put in charge of Miss Gay Shepperson, fortyish, professional social worker. This resulted from a thoroughgoing quarrel between blatant dictatorish Governor Talmadge and President Roosevelt's quiet stubborn CWAdministrator Hopkins. In the course of the quarrel, these words flew...
...taste for shawl-collared evening coats, a disdainful extravagance which causes him to use his footmen instead of the mails for messages to his friends. Lady Sibell, whose mother, the Countess of Beauchamp, is the Duke's sister, had opportunities to learn more about her gay uncle last year when she worked as receptionist in the London hairdressing establishment which the second Duchess of Westminster started after her divorce. What caused the Duke of Westminster's libel suit last week were a few paragraphs which Lady Sibell printed in her regular chit-chat column in Oxford and Cambridge...
Score--Harvard Freshmen 20, Tech Freshmen 11. Field goals--White 5, Moser 5, Gray 4, Stephenson 3, Field 2, Lewis 2, Wopezik 2, Boning 1, Gay I. Gibson 1, Gillee 1, Prouty 1, Witherspoon 1. Free throws: Gay 1, Gray 1, White 1. HARVARD J.V.'s. TUFTS J.V.'s. Lovejoy, Piper, Herman, r.f. r.f., Lewis, Ernst Adelson, Leviettes, Titman, l.f. l.f., Miller, Murphy Graff, Beardsley, Silsby, c. c., Walter Kollinites, Fields, Stevens, r.g. r.g., Ingraham, Jones Zdonowicz, Goldberg, l.g. l.g., Yavarrow...