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Word: ragged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...says, "So little, once it has changed, changes back: the world knew us: we would never be warm again: I let go, saw winter coming toward a cold tree, cried, cried, came apart like a rain-rotted rag." The impression after the last word is not pessimistic, however. It is a sad wisdom, a beautifully told truth...

Author: By Jonathan O. Swan, | Title: Beauty in a Treehouse | 10/24/1951 | See Source »

...fantasy: that Fascism will make a comeback in Italy. To hurry X-day along, he signs over Virginia's remaining lire to some underworld sharpies. For a receipt they give him a bit of black cloth, purportedly from Mussolini's death shirt, soon leave him holding the rag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prize Heel | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

...sold all her fine clothes, jewels and furniture to pay her debts, but she still owed thousands of pesetas. Street urchins mocked, "Yah, yah. Marquesita," as she trudged to work each morning. But the kind nuns in the hospital gave Carmen a brief smile as she pushed her rag over the tile floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: For 15 Days | 9/24/1951 | See Source »

...party. But it depends on whether you consider the party of the first part or the party of the second part after getting out the current issue of the Lampoon. It was pretty gay the night we put the last page of the old rag to bed. The whole gang returned from Bar Harbor--without tans, of course, except for Joe Klowernig who somehow always managed to do the wrong things. Not that he wasn't a nice guy, but Joe somehow didn't seem to fit in. As the party went along (I guess we'd call...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 7/19/1951 | See Source »

...Today or wander placidly through Bix Beiderbecke's jazz classic, In a Mist. Then he changes his pace. As Sutton explains it, "When the crowd gets with me, I begin bearing down." Sutton, bearing down on such ragtime standards as Ballin' the Jack or Maple Leaf Rag, delivers some of the solidest gutbucket piano being pounded out today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Young Stylist, Old Style | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

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