Word: gayer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went on between them was pure, beautiful and charming. But it was quite different as soon as he thought of somebody else in his place. . . . Where had she learned such kisses?" The increasing sensuality of their relationship wore on the boy, mads him skinny, sunken-eyed. Katya grew plumper, gayer, flattered by his love and the adulation of others. So they decided to separate for a summer. Their parting was youthfully emotional, yet she took it easily, and he found himself almost happy to get away. All summer he mooned about her, seeing her in other girls, in trees...
Truly the romantics are growing gayer every minute. To jest, the canons of art are stilled, hushed the small weapons. But never can an editorial become lyric, even in critical disquisition upon the, was it "kisses not for our mouths." Mix a butter and egg world with New York atmosphere, synthetic gin and the romantic: result--omelette. To put it more plainly, one can quote Rolfe Humphries "Text for a Bitter Vision...
...Walter N. Koelz, ichthyologist of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, the Naturalist of the expedition, reported a collection of specimens so large that he had filled even his bunk with them and slept in the hold. Included were birds and animals not yet named. Jacob Gayer, staff photographer of the National Geographic Society, had over 1,000 colored pictures of wild life...
...himself beset with a small stage full of weeping and demonstrative ladies to whom he has quite innocently made love on other days, beset also by the Svengali-eyed villain, Belvawney and by Minnie's papa. Gilbert's fooling here is perfectly, magnificently silly, and what is gayer than untrammeled silliness...
...calls. Some will come back to pay a brief parting call-Magnus Johnson, for example; Senators Ball, Dial, Stanley, Walsh of Massachusetts, McCormick, before a forced retirement to rustication on their farms and by their native fireside. A few, such as Senator Elkins, will be back to wave a gayer adieu. Others such as Senators Walsh, of Montana, Brookhart, of Iowa, will return with a sigh of relief, knowing that they may come again. But, in the main, it will be the same identical Congress-the Congress that nobody liked...