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Word: gays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Everyday there appear on the newsstands new, gay-colored magazines with pictures of pretty young ladies gracing their covers, Daily there arrive also fresh stocks of somber, dignified-looking periodicals with a position and wild-eyed, excited magazines with a Cause...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Undergraduate Literary Taste Leans to "Saturday Evening post"--Students Habitually Read All the News Fit to Print | 3/19/1927 | See Source »

...Introduction to the Modern History of Money". Professor Gay, Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 3/17/1927 | See Source »

Girls of Emory University at Atlanta, Ga., cringed. "... Simple hell cats with muddy minds." The Methodist revivalist was roaring at them. Outside it was full spring. Gay flowers beckoned to be plucked for coat lapels; breezes would blow at hair loosed in vernal gayety. But the girls, and boys, of Emory, sat awed as Dr. Clovis Chapel of Memphis continued to castigate: "The average girl of 17 would not greatly object to appearing nude if she had any excuse to do so. ... Modesty has already burst; it is dead. The average girl of today is like the moth fluttering around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Lent | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

...Translated into English. Editor Lustig's surname means "Merry," "Gay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 28, 1927 | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

...Most Reverend Randall Thomas Davidson, Primate of All England, slowly paraded into Church House at Westminister.† With him was the Right Honorable and Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, Anglican Archbishop of York and Primate of England; and behind them entered 300 high dignitaries of their Church of England, gay in vestment, sombre in feature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pale Green Book | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

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