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Next day, paired with little Mlle. Didi Vlasto, she played three listless sets against Mary K. Browne and Elizabeth Ryan, won the first, lost the next two and the match. She showed small interest in the game or its result. Fearless Whigs began to whisper that she might not be faking-she might really have something the matter. In the singles, Molla Mallory beat Joan Fry of England, Mlle. H. Conto-slavos of France beat Mrs. Marion Jessup, and Mlle. Lenglen, after displaying a physician's certificate that forbade her to take part in any vigorous match, beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Wimbledon- Jul. 5, 1926 | 7/5/1926 | 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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