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...from '29 are the logical ones to fill the need which Lampy shows. Lampy has long been known all about this world as the gayest college undergraduate; let him show the world anew that in spite of his flings he can still hold his own with his offspring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REVIEWER JUMPS ALL OVER FIRST LAMPOON | 10/2/1925 | See Source »

...night; Anticlea Loring (foundling, not blood-cousin to David) has flaming red hair and a high temper; wedding bells peal over the bad uncle's grave. The minor characters do not quite catch their Dickensian accent, but Farnol is Farnol through the thickest of thick and the gayest of thin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sturly | 3/16/1925 | See Source »

...Couzens is not regarded as being friendly to the Administrator *James Hamilton Lewis is "the U. S. political beau." Spats, pink waistcoats, purple handkerchiefs, whiskers of scarlet hue he wears with infinite variety. In his fighting days, he would go to the toughest wards of Chicago, dressed in his gayest, huge flower in his lapel, fat and fragrant cigar in his mouth. His audacity melted the hearts of the toughs- and toughs vote with their hearts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Investigations | 9/29/1924 | See Source »

...house philanders with females of whom his wife, up to the time her good friend Mrs. Mazareen tells her about it for her own good, knows little. Thereupon the wife lights a cigarette and starts out to plug the domestic puncture by proving that she can be the gayest of the household...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Aug. 25, 1924 | 8/25/1924 | See Source »

...Bachelors, W. E. Garrett Gilmore was the gayest. Not only had he contributed heavily to his club's point total by winning the Association singles sculling event and finishing second in the senior quarter-mile clash. He had also become National single-scull champion, for there was none to meet him in the challenge event.* Last year, at Baltimore, a Buffalo policeman, Officer Edward McGuire, and a Lake Ontario fisherman, Hilton Belyea, were on hand to challenge Paul V. Costello, 1922 champion. The policeman, a burly man, won. This year he stayed on his beat in Buffalo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gay Bachelors | 8/18/1924 | See Source »

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