Word: gay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such jolly occasions, the food is always bountiful, the liquor excellent and plentiful. A teetotaler herself, Mrs. Mesta sips Coca-Cola and warily watches the spirits rise around her. She likes everybody to be gay, but not to get out of hand. It is a kind of entertaining peculiarly suited to the plain Government of plain Harry S. Truman. So is Hostess Perle Skirvin Mesta...
...standing in darkness. We climbed a rickety outside stairs to a second-floor door that opened into a garish six-room apartment, slyly constructed by the factory owner in violation of housing laws. Our monocled host greeted us with tipsy cheeriness as his guests oohed and aahed over his gay shirt pasted with cutouts of Esquire girls. Inside the rooms were assembled, in monstrous taste, old tapestries, carved Italian statues of the 15th Century, paintings of madonnas, and some fourscore of Bavaria's wealthiest and most titled citizenry. Heading the guest list was one of the Kaiser...
Last year, the Crimson was winning 13 to 8 half-way through the saber, and needed just one more point to take the meet, when John Gay lost three matches, for his only defeat of the year...
...Harvard lineups: Foil, Raney, Arp, Vera, Frankman (alternate). Epee: Ager, Yates, Constable. Saber; Gay, Carter, Masterson, Westhrin (alternate...
Peroy's fencers came back in the last group of matches to win in the saber, 7 to 2. The Crimson's lineup of Fels Carter, Tom Masterson, and John Gay opposed Amherst's Georges, Schfiller, and Wells...