Word: ragged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...following year, the progressive staff bought a new press and enlarged its beloved rag by the addition of a fifth column laterally and five inches vertically...
...Rag (Ruby Wright; King). A conglomeration of honky-tonk piano, ragtime lyrics, and a jigging beat in an effectively deadpan performance...
Were students less personally involved, we suspect they would find much in the yearly parietal ruckus to amuse them. Some of the laughter, indeed, would be on themselves, but the funniest aspect would be the series of varied rags waved at them from time to time to rationalize social monasticism. Nevertheless, the subject evokes tier on tier of long faces, and when the rag is as tattered as the Administrative Board's latest, we can hardly find fault with the gloom...
...gang is all there-Gene Krupa on the drums, Harry James on the trumpet, Teddy Wilson at the piano, and Goodman, of course, on the clarinet. Fully warmed up and stimulated by cheering jitterbugs, they play with a brashness rarely caught on records. Among the best numbers: Bugle Call Rag, Shine, Time on My Hands...
Saints of Skulduggery. Sam soon moved into a wider field-school. Pockets bulging with Sawyerian equipment ("Fishhooks, twine, white alleys and other marvels, Barlow knives, jew's-harps, hunks of maple sugar, birds' eggs, potato guns, and perhaps a picture of Adam and Eve without a rag"), Sam was soon leader of the school gang and the bane of his teacher's existence...