Word: tra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chrysantheme, Lena in La Princesse Jaune. It was to be a Marguerite, a Lady Marian, a Xenia, that Hisa Koike, after studying music at Columbia University, undertook to learn western make-up methods and practiced them even while playing Yum-Yum. Like the flowers that bloom in the spring, tra-la, her present employment has little to do with her case. Critics, having heard her vocal chords vibrate under drafts from her super-Dempsey lungs, grant her at least an even chance of making good...
...occasionally he called out, "Bravo, René." He, Jean Borotra, was playing against René Lacoste, conquerer of J. O. Anderson, for the championship of England at Wimbledon (TIME, July 6). On the sidelines sat the King of England, who was rumored to have a bet on Boro-tra. He did not know, perhaps, that Borotra, a young man who has never permitted his sport to interfere with his pleasure, had broken the monotony of the Wimbledon tournament by hurried week-end trips to Paris by airplane, returned somewhat pale. No young man who does that sort of thing...
Yale.--Alvord, Beckwith, Douglas, Freelander, Greely, Gibson, Sturdy, Tra- cy, Treadwell, Vander Pyl. Wood...