Word: tralala
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...Paris Soir, flashy Max Corre, now 35, took his creed from a sign above an editor's desk: "1) Where is the fact? 2) Where is the human interest? 3) Where is the tra-la-la?" The thing that most impressed him was the tralala. When France fell, Corre managed to miss the occupation's hardships by going to Lyon. But he turned up as an eleventh-hour Resistance soldier under General Leclerc and rode into Paris as a private in one of the first jeeps behind Leclerc...
Sultry, sensuous Chloe Delaplain, 18, flew into a rage. "Obscene-obscene picador," she screamed that day in 1875, in a voice that shook the Delaplain brownstone mansion in Brooklyn, N. Y. Selfish sister Ellen, 22, paid no heed, hummed tralala, wrinkled her "grotesque and powerful" nose, turned to give a gracious welcome to Homer Henshaw, a Harvard man. There was nothing left for Chloe" to do but to walk in the family garden. Almost before she knew it, handsome Gerrit Van Fleet was "grinding his blonde mustache into her lips...
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