Word: trie
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like Mr. Davis' last farce, Trie Nervous Wreck, the play employs Otto Kruger in the lead. Mr. Kruger and Victor Moore (back from vaudeville) illustrate the story of two ingenious crooks who invade a health farm of the wealthy. When they are through, the inmates are not so wealthy. The spectators have meanwhile enjoyed themselves boisterously...
...team B. Stafford had with him as carriers Baldwin, Moseley and Clark. A. O. Fordyce took Doherty's place at end, with E. H. Bradford as his running mate. Pratt and Taylor filled the tackle posts, with Daniell, Turner, and Tripp as the center trie. Hogue was not in uniform, Tupp of Team C. being promoted to fill his place...
...Victorian with a channel and a gravy puddle at one end. On it were laid three pennies and six pennies and bright, new shillings, and upon them were piled up the fat Christmas raisins, prunes and French plums. Over all was poured a bottle or so of brandy and trie lamps were turned out while a responsible uncle put a match to it-and the fun, the rather terrifying fun, began! The leaping thin flames, blue and yellow like wild pansies, turned the laughing players into a shifting, shrieking, witch's circle ... a whirl of darting hands and skirls...
...southern tip of the imaginary line on which the world revolves. More recently, only a few months ago (TIME, Mar. 17), he went into bankruptcy, his substance expended in the Arctic. One of his few assets was the schooner Maud which he had left near Alaska to drift across trie pole in the Arctic icepack, while he went adventuring toward the pole by airplane. The failure of the airplane venture was one of the causes of his bankruptcy...
Time (Thyme) is to trie me, as each be tried must...