Word: lah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ballet's four familiar prima ballerinas-Tatiana Riabouchinska, Irina Baronova, Alexandra Danilova and Tamara Toumanova-the first two were missing. In their places were two newly acquired slim-limbed bids for U.S. favor: diminutive, British-born Alicia Markova (Alice Marks), and Nini Theilade (pronounced Tay-lah'-de), an exotic, Javanese-born tripper of mixed Danish, Polish, German and Hindu extraction...
There were further reflections on the "gum'ment" and "Franklin De-lah-no Rosy-felt," but as his speech continued Senator Long's reputation for political shrewdness began to become more understandable. With the nation at its loudspeaker eager for another session of name-calling, with every important newspaper in the land primed to print his speech the next morning, Senator Long devoted the first five minutes to his enemies and the remaining 40 to propagandizing his Share-The-Wealth Plan. For his plan to make "every man a king" by limiting personal capital...
...inclusive creed, recognizing the divinity of the founders of the world's other religions. His tenets were internationalism, universal peace, love and tolerance for all, education, work and equality for men and women. Persecution, next best thing to martyrdom for making a religion grow, followed Baha'u'l lah though it is difficult to see how his gentle faith should have bothered anyone. From jail to exile to jail he went, throughout the East. In the early years of Baha'i (as the faith came to be known) 20,000 of its followers were martyred...
Unfaithful (Paramount). Ruth Chatterton, who has made a reputation as an actress of heavy dramatic parts, has up to this time kept in control her instinct for staginess and lah-de-dah affectation. In Unfaithful, she takes the lid off. She is the U. S. wife of a frivolous British nobleman. She knows her husband is unfaithful but she cannot divorce him because to do that would let her high-strung brother know that his wife is the peer's mistress. There are possibilities in the idea, in spite of clumsy direction, but whatever possibilities there are Miss Chatterton...