Word: gays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Apparently this great romance was nothing very odious from the hints in the first instalment: "When Senator Brandegee, then young and handsome, entered the drawing room where the gay party was being staged and saw his beloved ideal sitting on a table and smoking, he was so shocked that he turned on his heel and left without a word." This incident it appears doomed him to "gloomy bachelorhood" . . . until weighed down with sorrow and loneliness he ultimately committed suicide. It would be ridiculous, were it not that the dead man deserves better at the hands of the living...
...bulkhead of an officer's messroom. He could color the Missouri Capitol with brilliant sea-script proclaiming, "We [the Navy] Are Ready Now." The Naval Academy received ten of his paintings as the gift of the late George von L. Meyer. With more delicate panels he made gay the steam yacht Noma for Vincent Astor, the schooner yacht Vagrant for Harold S. Vanderbilt, the yacht Viking for George F. Baker Jr. Among yachtsmen and Navymen, wherever he went, he made paintings, made friends...
...radical magazines there is no end. The barometers of influence, modes, cults and cliques, they succeed each other in gay, interminable succession-backed by a group of bright young people who want to see their names in print, or by a garretful of earnest intellectuals whose desire it is to break a lance for any forlorn cause and die if they can-or at least starve-on the barricade of some well fought for hope. The magazines are published in amazing covers of topaz and mauve and cinnamon. Braver than autumn leaves, they flourish for a while, bailiffs occupy...
...farce in the scene in the reception room of the Fortune Teller, in the scene at the dress rehearsal in the theatre, in the hilarious dinner table scene in the hilarious dinner table scene in the boarding house and in the uproarious final carnival. The former director of the "Gay Theatre for Grown-Up Children" and of the so-called "Cracked Looking Glass" set the style for the free theatre which Meyer hold and others have carried on in Soviet Russia, and though he has himself shaken the dust of Leningrad and Moscow from his feet and wanders an exile...
...thus given for both to know each other better than continuous weeks in classroom or lecture can allow. Indeed, friendships, often considered unattainable, have begun in this way--for even the most formidable of faculty lions is lamblike at ten. To the meek, the bold, the sad, the gay, today brings open sesame to Olympus--Olympus, two lumps and cream...