1921 Times 5 May 8/1 (heading) Opening of the R.A.D.A. Theatre.

1937 W. S. Maugham Theatre xx. 191 I always say you're the greatest actress on the stage. I've learnt more from you than I did all the years I was at the R.A.D.A.

1949 Listener 21 Apr. 676/1 They were, in fact, R.A.D.A. students at play.

1962 J. Braine Life at Top iv. 68 A different voice, the voice of the red-haired girl from RADA whom now I dimly remember talking to earlier.

1977 L. Meynell Hooky gets Wooden Spoon xiv. 179 Sergeant Fitt could certainly have won a medal at RADA for..complete impassiveness.

2005 Guardian 10 Dec. (Guide Suppl.) 4/2 A lot of these feelings had to do with the children in question being snooty, tousle-haired little gits with hee-haw Rada accents.

1889 J. J. Thomas Froudacity 168 We have had the..Yorubas, Aradas,..and Congoes, as the most numerous and important of the tribal contribution of Africa to the population of these Colonies.]

1929 W. B. Seabrook Magic Island i. iii. 43 Some..danced, not the mad Rada of the night, but boisterous, gay Congo dances.

1929 W. B. Seabrook Magic Island i. i. 11 I knelt at last before the great Rada drums.

1937 M. J. Herskovits Life Haitian Valley viii. 149 When vodun deities are discussed in Mirebalais, most often two ‘companies’ of them are mentioned, the Rada and the Pétro ‘squads’.

1941 J. G. Leyburn Haitian People vii. 145 To the spirits..not drawn from Christianity the name ‘loa’ is applied. There seem in general to be two classes of these: those who have an African origin, and those with a Haitian background only. The former group is called ‘Rada’, the latter ‘Petro’.

1957 Amer. Anthropologist 59 821 Members of two African-derived religions, Yoruba ‘Shango’..and Dahomean ‘Rada’..consider themselves also to be Roman Catholics.

1999 Santa Fe New Mexican (Nexis) 21 Apr. p43 Boukman Eksperyans, in combining Voodoo rhythms such as petro, congo, rada and nago with a broader secular sound, excavated the deepest impulses of the Haitian spirit.

2002 Denver Post (Nexis) 21 Apr. e2 There are two major vaudun branches: Rada and Petro. Rada spirits are benevolent or at least malleable. Petro deities, while not necessarily malevolent, are definitely aggressive.