Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sweet Adeline. Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II offered last week their show Sweet Adeline, lampooning softly the notions of the Nineties in a gay and rambling history of which the heroine was a Broadway nightingale, singing with the thorn in her stuffed bosom...
...week in the Theater am Schiflbauerdarnm for an opening of note. Flimsy programs purchased from elderly ushers announced that they were to witness Happy End, a Comedy of Gang Life in Chicago by Elizabeth Hauptmann with music by Kurt Weill and lyrics by Bert Brecht, German translator of John Gay's immortal Beggars' Opera. An italicized footnote explained: "the comedy is based on a story by Dorothy Lane which appeared in The J. L. S. Weekly, published at St. Louis...
...also was his Cadillac catalog (1927) in which sleek, pastel-tinted automobiles were pictured in great vaulted salons or beneath the towers of fabulous cities. Most numerous of Cleland's work are borders and title pages in the Renaissance spirit-filigrees of twining tendrils, urns, cherubs, plaques, a gay, lacy profusion of Italianate ornament. Of these his book is full, together with title pages, vignettes, elaborate initials, bookplates, watercolors. It is a book to delight lovers of meticulous, traditional beauty...
...When you read the names of the following persons, what fact is immediately associated with them in your mind? Answer in one or two words in each case. Mendeleff, Davy, Perkin, Faraday, Curie, Priestley, Gay-Lussac, Dalton, Solvay, Ramsay, Lavoisier...
...Mendeleff, periodic system of the elements; Davy, miner's lamp; Perkin, mauve synthetic coal tar dyes; Faraday, electro magnetic induction; Curie, Radium; Priestley, oxygen; Gay-Lussac, law of combining volumes of gases; Dalton, atomic theory; Solvay, soda from ammonia; Ramsay, the Noble gases; Lavoisier, originator of modern chemistry...