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Word: trappe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Third Termites were added two Oklahomans-Senator Josh Lee and former Governor Martin Edwin Trapp; also Ambassador to Belgium Joseph E. Davies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: 1940 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Album of Early Choral Music (Trapp Family Choir; Victor: 10 sides). Salzburg's singing family (TIME, Dec. 19) warbles a program of quaint archaic vocal chamber music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: March Records | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Because the aristocratic von Trapps had a good deal of time on their hands, and because Father & Mother von Trapp were both good amateur musicians, the family developed the pleasant habit of making music together. On crisp Tirolese evenings they all gathered in the hall of their mountain castle to sing and play hoary Latin masses and lusty Tirolese folk songs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Family Choir | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

Last autumn they decided to go to the U. S. Traveling all together in a specially chartered bus, Papa von Trapp, Mama von Trapp and the seven young singing von Trapps barnstormed the Middle West and South, surprised many a gas-station attendant with their dirndl dresses and Lederhosen. Last week they wound up in Manhattan, singing a program of Renaissance music and Austrian folk songs at Town Hall. Manhattan critics found their singing the last word in freshness and refinement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Family Choir | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...world's most musical families, the von Trapp family is also one of the world's most self-sufficient. Their Austrian peasant clothes, which they never exchange for citified dress, are all homemade. They even weave some of the cloth themselves. Says ample, athletic Frau von Trapp: ''We are having the time of our lives in God's own country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Family Choir | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

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