Word: gay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Donald C. Van Roosen '45; Captain-Manager of the Varsity, declared "the team as psychologically set as it has ever been." He pointed out that John Gay, who was absent from the Columbia match, will be in the saber lineup. Jay Levine, Captain of the Freshman team, said his team had "a pretty good chance" with but two losses, both to Worcester. Both teams spent a prolonged period in their final practice before the season's most important meet...
Ending the first court test of a new Massachusetts law under which the book itself-not the bookseller of publisher--goes on trial, the judge's ruling put the story of a gay beauty of England's restoration back on the bookstands...
...Government had done a good job since Liberation. The shops were full of goods, 1946 American cars rolled through the streets, multicolored neon lights made Brussels one of Europe's few gay capitals. By permitting a rich flow of imports, cutting prices 10%, keeping wages down and boosting taxes, the Government had licked inflation. But trade was stagnating. Wailed Catholic Opposition Leader Frans van Cauwelaert: "We have wasted our chances, we have squandered our resources. For too long now we have gobbled down the compliments of visiting foreigners, telling us how well off we are compared to other European...
Masters of Mayhem. Bab Gilbert grew up in that peculiarly Victorian period which saw the rise of the limerick, the nonsense-rhyme, the deadpan fantasy, the whimsical fairytale, the gay and dexterous verse-strummings on themes of mayhem, decapitation, kidnaping, cannibalism-an era that began with Thackeray, Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll and Gilbert himself, and was carried on into the 20th Century by James Barrie, G. K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc and Evelyn Waugh...
Varsity: Foils--Van Rossen, Raney, Barricelli, Hubbard; Epee--Johnson, Duke, Masterson; Saber--Ellis, Edelman, Gay...