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Word: tra (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only when the Three Little Maids from School strutted what they had learned there, when the Mikado (Edward Fraction) bust out into a cakewalk, when the flowers that bloomed in the spring gave way to a jamboree that had nothing to do with the case, but proved mighty, mighty tra-la. The Federal Theatre boldly moved The Mikado from Japan to the South Seas. It should have been bolder still and moved it, shag and shaggage, to Harlem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Mika-deo-do | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

Fifteen men entered the course without fellowships. The group represents almost every phase of street and highway management, including police enforcement, motor vehicle administration, driver psychology, education, highway planning and design and tra control engineering...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thirty-One Charter Students Graduate From America's First Traffic School | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

...afraid of the big bad wolf? Tra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Piglets' Tune | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

...flowers that bloom in the spring, tra-la" crooned the Vagabond as he trudged through the slush toward Plympton Street. He doubled his fists a little closer into the pockets of his Chesterfield and tried to think of the "Transmission of Heat." Professor Black transmits heat, he thought; but this night is air-cooled. One really should give Professor Black a break, though perhaps it would be better to wait for "Heaviside Calculus." Yes, "Heaviside Calculus" would be a much more fanciful subject than "Transmission of Heat," lectures being what they are, and there would be no temptation to introduce...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/15/1932 | See Source »

...eyed little wisp of a man, he capers about constantly, kicking up such a breeze with his furious fanning that he all but blows himself into the wings. He takes frequent encores by singing the most irreverent variations on the text, translating "The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring, Tra-La" into every dialect but the Scandinavian. He expands the patter-song "I've Got a Little List" to include the more recent nuisances. Even in Gilbert's day this song was progressively altered to include the passing parade of follies, such as the "scorching bicyclist" and the "lovely suffragist...

Author: By G. G. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/13/1932 | See Source »

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