Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...onetime Kaiser, he obtained 100,000 marks from a diamond merchant. In Holland he appeared as Canon Charles Dixon of India, whom he had met, and collected a chapel building fund; for India's heathen. In Rome he was honored as a Cardinal's relative. At gay Biarritz he was the son of Poet Maurice Maeterlinck. With graces and fantasies almost super-Maeterlinckian he solicited $25,000 to erect a statue to his father...
...Heroine is despondent. She sits at the window of her drab abode, contemplating suicide. The organ of the cinema house plays Tchaikovsky's Pathétique or something equally lugubrious and appropriate. But, hark! A knock on the door! The organist changes quickly into some gay lilt by Mendelssohn. It is the Hero, or a telegram from him, just in time. The Heroine does not leap to her death. Everything ends happily-in the movies. Now that the "talkies" have come, you can actually hear that situation-saving knock on the door. And nowadays the organ music...
...ancestry dating to 1774 and in whose long lineage there always has been a grey dam or a grey sire. On the morning of the Derby there were three favorites: Cragadour, Mr Jinks, and Lord Derby's Hunter's Moon. A few people bet on a horse called Walter Gay, receiving 100 to 8 odds. They were later proved wise because Walter Gay came in second. In Belfast, Ireland was circulated a message which nobody could trace to its source: "Trigo will do the Trigo is Irish-reared, Irish-owned (Mr. William Barnett, corn-broker) Many Belfastians bet on Trigo...
THERE are few ages in the history of England about which it is easier to become romantic than that of Anne and George the First. The gay, corrupt life pictured in "The Beggar's Opera", when Walpole talked of a man and his price, and nobody's virtue was over-nice lends itself admirably to a bit of rich imaginative writting by a scholar who knows the period and its people and can see through the eyes of a contemporary...
...Sherwin has tried to put on the screen a real moving picture of this life, taking John Gay as his central figure. Evidently a scholar whose acquaintance with his material has not been gained solely in text-books and Hogarth's prints, he has tried to set down some of the more intimate aspects of the life of the day, and has succeeded to a certain extent. If the reader himself has a vivid imagination, he may put Mr. Sherwin's pictures in his mind's eye and build up out of them a fine scene of rum and riot...