Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Guatemala City. Through the streets of a 400-year-old town a gay white float is passing by, "The Spirit of St. Louis," made all in flowers in honor of the guest. The real Spirit is lodged in an open hangar guarded by barefoot Indian soldiers. In the city Col. Lindbergh is making his grave, honest speeches. He is the city's first adopted son; receiving a medal engraved with the national bird, the quetzal...
...Gay Defender is none other than Richard Dix, wearing a warm coat of California tan. An inevitably charming and good-natured outlaw, he cracks his long whip, shoots, stabs as if he were playing the role of a contemporary gangster instead of Joaquin Murrietta whose career was a trail of blood, bullets, alcohol and love for a pure sweet girl through the days of '49. There is no need to fear that Jake Hamby and his gang will be spry enough to catch and hang so gallant a jack, although they make violent efforts...
...column is one Beatrice Fair fax, who at her littered desk, sur rounded by helpmates, appears by proxy in this film. The plot, supposed ly non-fictitious, details the amorous bewilderments of those whose wails and whines serve Miss Fairfax as a means of support. There is the gay young girl who scorns the boy her older sister loves, preferring to play around with streetsheiks. There are the boy friends, some good, some less good, who make their proper and im proper proposals. Finally the older sister, following the advice supplied by Miss Fairfax, gets her man. Chicago. Roxie Hart...
...15th of June in 1904 was a blue and shining day. There were a few white patches of froth against the china sky and a warm wind loitered in the air, as gay as a song. The people who boarded the General Slocum that morning ? mostly women who were bringing their small children on the annual outing of St. Mark's German Lutheran Church Sunday School ? felt the presence of this singular perfection. So did old Captain van Schaick who stood on his deck cocky and smiling, proud to be the skipper of one of the best excursion...
Handel, on the other hand, was a very gay type of man, with great spontaneity; a cosmopolitan gentleman who enjoyed life and did not take it too seriously at least not until later in life when he too turned to writing a more religious type of music...