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Word: trys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond can not frown upon this, but he can not wholly and openly condone it. The receptions are always bad. Everyone tells lies about the groom and trys furtively to take two pieces of wedding cake. And if one begins to kiss the bridesmaids, along about the third one he runs into an absolute dud whose smile would make a horse shy. This dud accounts for the endless conversations that one sees going on. The poor fool is trying to decide just what to do. And if one doesn't kiss the bridesmaids...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 5/28/1931 | See Source »

...demise, on the last day of the last century. Alison's house has been sold, the family is moving out. Her relatives gather. All save one have denied themselves life, just as Alison had. After a good deal of melodrama, during which a doddering old aunt trys to burn the house down, a niece gets hold of a packet of Alison's poems- the ones which tell of her thwarted love. The niece is the only one who has attained the freedom which Alison's poems sang about. After three acts she persuades the family that just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 15, 1930 | 12/15/1930 | See Source »

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