Word: ra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This ta-ra-boom vibrated over Illinois, over Indiana, over Ohio, and set quivering the editors of the Cincinnati Enquirer, a newspaper which once had individuality and still has prestige. Its editors threw off their eyeshades; reached for their fifes, ever ready among the lead pencils on their desks; and shrilled in tune with the Tribune: "This institution [University of Wisconsin], like many others, is said to be honeycombed with radical doctrinaires, internationalists and aliens. The boys have been led to believe that they should refuse to submit to military training and discipline. Why cannot all such academic proponents...
...official cheer of this sorority: Ring, ching, ching. Ho, hippy, hi. Ra, ro, arrow, Pi Beta...
...ra, ver-r-ra, ver-r-ra NICHT...
Altogether the news from Washington must have seemed to Rear Admiral Latimer, in Nicaragua, as it came in over the radio, like the broadcasting of an opéra bouffe called "NICARAGUA BETRAYED, or Are Mexicans Bolsheviks...
...neither God nor morality, but only masterful determination to take advantage of every circumstance Fortune throws his way. Apprised of his father's approaching assassination, he assumes a "hands off" attitude, profits by another's crime. But, in the end, his "philosophy" is revealed to him as a mere ra- tionalization of the beastly Karamazov nature, whereupon his tower of reason topples into madness. With two love stories, these three threads are woven into an intricate stage pattern, directed by Jacques Copeau, who came to the U. S. for that special purpose, enacted by a cast including Alfred Lunt, Clare...