Word: gays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dillwyn must have had a collection of aunts, grandmothers and female neighbors all of whom they loved until it hurt but who nearly drove them insane with fuss-budgeting, shilly-shallying, dibble-dabbling, microscopic solicitude and spiritual myopia. As the young authors-to-be grew up, quick-witted, sensitive, gay, they must have talked together for hours about these people and their plight - perhaps in a meadow like the dewy one in their book Knee-High to aGrasshopper - and been consumed by that uncomfortable emotion which is a mixture of furious exasperation and profound pity. They must have compacted...
...pack animals." I was going to be gay with the remark that I had some camels, but remembered myself in time to forget it. Alone then but for ourselves we continued our slow climb. I had never been so high before except once at Revere Beach and that time old Aunt Kate took me to the top of the Woolworth Building. And yet here I was high above the waters of Champlain, working my way even higher. And then it snowed, snowed with the fury of ten unhappy children and a spanked grand-child...
...Vocal Club received much praise for its rendition of its numbers of the Gay Nineties, "Landlord, Fill the Flowing Bowl" and "Old King Wenceslas." The Mandolin Club scored with is song of the "The Volga Boatmen...
...Illyria in love with the proud Olivia in love with the shipwrecked maid impersonating her twin brother are too frequently allowed to lag into slow comedy only partially relieved by the Bard's verse. Not so in this case. The cast mercifully interpret light comedy in a gay spirit unoppressed by the playwright's reputation. Sometimes the humor is even flavored with slapstick, as in the case of Egon Brecher's Sir Toby Belch, who does. Yet so airily do the players carry off the Shakespearean fancies that the audience readily forgives trivial irreverence avows Twelfth Night...
Freshman Squad: John Potter '20, E. J. Ward '30, R. F. Barbeur '30, P. H. Clark '30, D. J. Dungan '30, P. L. Ela '30, C. N. Russell '30, G. P. Murphy '30, D. R. Gay '30, R. C. Hana '30, G. T. Houges '30, R. V. Kellogg...