Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high spirits. . . . Although it was a day of brilliant sunshine, the curtains were drawn, and the room lighted by many tall candles. Aubrey Beardsley, clad in a yellow dressing gown, and wearing red slippers turned up at the toes, was working. As I entered he waved, laughed his gay laugh, then coughed horribly...
...Development of Railroad Transportation in England up to 1860," Professor Gay, Harvard 1. Economics...
...Gay Paree. The Great Temptations, having been despatched to rake in provincial shekels, Gay Paree was unloaded at the Winter Garden, where smoking is permitted. The Shubert machine knows its business, knows what the Winter Garden public wants for $5.50. It offers well-drilled squads of girls in conscientious exercises. It' splashes the stage with prismatic voluptuousness. It jollies the audience. Charles ("Chic") Sale appears in Yankee caricatures, a pleasant departure from the stale Jewish, Irish, Italian, Russian, Negro takeoffs. His comedy is the show's high spot. There is a funny skit wherein a neglected wife rebels...
About once every season it is well for a student vagabond to wonder a little further a field in search of interesting activities. In 40 B. C. Horace the Latin poet said "Be gay Focus eat of stuffed lampreys drink of the sharp Aventine wine so long as ye are not dyspeptic...
...this big battle between Straton and Mather tonight I'm putting my money on Mather. I took his course. He may, naturally be disqualified for bringing rocks with him to sock this herbiverous dinosaur of the gay nineties. But I doubt that--Mather is fair even to igneous intrusions from New York's open spaces...