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When Marceline came back to the Hippodrome in 1915 after a trip abroad, his crowds were already beginning to prefer the silent flutter of faces on a screen to the gayeties of a nimble droll.

From Time Magazine Archive

For picture purposes the little consumptive girl and the shabby but sincere gayeties of the Paris Latin Quarter seemed insufficient.

From Time Magazine Archive

I too love France, love all her splendors, her attractions, her gayeties.

From Time Magazine Archive

The vanities and gayeties of London had no power to diminish or modify it.

From Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character by Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard)

Do you mean to tell me that after my Parisian education, and presentation in London, and year of travel, and the gayeties of India, I resemble a little, countrified Irish girl?”

From Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing by Page, Gertrude