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Word: dara (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Today, though the great Nikola Pashitch is dead, his family is still potent. Last week his daughter, Mile. Dara Pashitch, announced her engagement to a young Jugoslav who had previously been reported engaged to Miss Mary Landon Baker, Chicago heiress of a few millions. The fiance who got not dollars but a great name is comely Bojidar Puritch, recently Jugoslav Consul General at Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Little Emperor | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

...impossible, form, it provides only "nonsense syllables" for the singers. Thus the basses open by chanting "easygoingly but richly," in the following language: "Ta da di da ra da da." The tenors enter with "Dum pum pum pum ti di diri diri"; then the ladies: "Tara dira dara diri didi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Nonsense Syllables | 5/12/1924 | See Source »

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