Word: gays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remarked the bellboy. "It was a gay week-end, and we enjoyed it just as much as the boys from Dartmouth. The reason I say that the Dartmouth men are more generous is because they invariably tipped us more than the boys from Cambridge." When asked whether Dartmouth's generosity could not be traced to the prosperous condition of the invaders as a result of successful wagers, the attendant replied. "No, they were just as generous Friday as they were Saturday. But the Harvard fellows treat the hotel more as their home, and consequently sometimes forget that we are personal...
...curtain, yes, a curtain to the doings"--not of the questing uncle of Gherardi's novel but to that once equally devastating blade, the gay, the cavalier, the verbose Mr. Arlen. A curtain--for at last his brief hour has been strutted on the stage of public fancy. The enfant gate of suburban London, the treasure of America must bow to the inevitable "what and what and then again", retreating with "that lovely lady" and her friends to the shades of an Anglo-Armenian oblivion. Like many even bonnier brethren he must watch the dust collect upon his once bright...
Broadway has killed Mr. Arlen. With gracile gestures bred of histrionic worth the great Cornell, the capable Maude escort his trivial body to the grave of failure. His gay parade was tinsel which the lights of critical Manhattan tarnished and destroyed. Careless and floodingly he wrote; careless they killed him. And now but for the pleasant pageant of their mockery of a funeral, they are quite willing to inspect his successor. Why did he live? Why did he die? He lived because there is even in the most sophisticated heart the occasional warmth of the chambermaid's love...
...years he played checkers and told jokes to gay people who sat around in little red cottages by a bleak northern lake and coughed into their handkerchiefs. Then, almost well again, and mocked by the irony of the disease that increases a man's keenness for living while depriving him of life, he bought a part interest in the Boston Braves. Overwork weakened him; he caught a cold; returned to his lake...
...canaries fluttered on the shelves, dogs pawed their wire stalls, and in the window a Brazil ian parrot cried out over and over in the terrible voice of a man unnerved by fear. Firemen broke down the door, took out the dogs, some alive, some dead; the 200 gay canaries, all dead; the parrot, dead...