Word: gays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Murray Folkoy attended kindergarten called him into her study on the third floor, Murray Folkoy was scared. He did not expect her to beat him, he did not even know whether she would speak severely or not. But he did know vaguely that whatever she said would break the gay delight he had discovered in going to kindergarten; it could never be so merry and beautiful again. Finally, miserable, full of an unexplainable despair, small Murray Folkoy jumped out of the window. In the hospital, where doctors said he might recover from a broken leg and other injuries, his mother...
...that had once under Scott pierced the vast whiteness of the Antarctic, brought back to England scientific minutiae on whales. Gained after a two-year expedition in perilous seas, such data may help preserve the monsters of the ocean from extinction at the hands of oil hunters. Whales are gay livers. They eat heartily of their favorite delicacy, an Antarctic crab known as prickly peter. They are far from monogamous...
...Freshman line-up follows: J. P. Faude, g.; E. J. Des Roches, lfb.; J. M. Sargeant, rhb.; R. H. Roland, lhb.; I. D. Bland, chb.; J. H. Smith rhb.; L. W. Carrigan, c.; W. E. Gay, lof.; W. D. Carter, lif.; E. C. Carter, rof.; E. J. Groves...
...pulpit where for a few more years he continued to function. Theodore Tilton went to France; there he was playing chess when a newspaper man handed him a cable which said, "BEECHER DEAD. INTERVIEW TILTON." For a long time Mr. Tilton stared out at the streets of Paris, gay with spring. Then he turned back to his chess board and said to the man he was playing with, "I beg your pardon ... is it my move?" The Book. To fit a name which is now not well remembered, even as a legend of ridiculous shame, Author Hibben has patched together...
...tribulations of two temperamental throttle pushers at a rapid tempo. "Come on, Salome, get hot," shouts Cannon-Ball Casey, engineer de. luxe, to his sawed-off but antagonistic fireman, Luke Beamish, who blows off quite as much steam as either the classy "Oriole Limited" or the relic of the Gay Nineties, the "Isobel." And between "the greatest mistake since Vesuvius" and the little "pipesqueale" there materializes enough excitement to keep the two locomotives "throttle up" throughout most of the picture and the audience free of the blase boredness which the average moving picture of the day almost invariably provokes...