Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is the habitual sheik story with the sexes switched. A desert beauty of Spanish ancestry suddenly loves a gay officer of the Foreign Legion and adopts the movie practice of her male prototypes, while the young Frenchman, thus captive in a Bedouin palace acts out the at-first-morose screen lady...
...Motive: To make the kitchen gay...
Sixteen East Gay Street is a picture of a street in Columbus, Ohio. Several people are walking along the sidewalk and a pair of children are fixing a tricycle. In the space between the two houses across the street the sky slants a light on the asphalt, and makes the leaves of the trees as bright as coins. It is late afternoon; in the golden twilight everything seems very quiet. If you look at the picture long enough, the man sitting on the porch will fold up his paper and go in to have supper...
While bankers, gay, convened in Houston, Tex., their borrowers (members of the National Association of Manufacturers) last week concluded their convention at Chattanooga, Tenn., in an atmosphere of gloom...
...uncle's library for long afternoons, the cry of the dark streets a far tumult, while the words that he read stirred a music in his mind. He grew up vain, erratic and melancholy, visited by visions of a strange beauty with which he informed his gay or bitter verses. As he waited for the death that teased him like an urchin, remembering all the treacheries of his heart and the triumphs of his mind, he said: "God will forgive me?that is His business!" Admired by many while he lived, he was never so sympathetically, hence so completely, comprehended...