Word: raggedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manager Paul Longone staged a five-week season with $175,000, a pittance compared with pre-Depression days when the Insull company spent millions. But economy, observers felt, was an insufficient excuse for what Longone offered. He promised first-rate opera, put on such ragged performances that it was often...
While displaying their lack of practice by a good deal of ragged hockey, the Yardlings demonstrated no lack of individual ability. Actually eleven out of the twelve goals scored were credited as unassisted.
The Diaghilev epoch was a long one, done almost to death by ballet enthusiasts during the past few years. Author Kirstein never knew the great impresario but from the testimony of many of his associates he has been able to paint him as a man with surly grandeur, a magnificent...
Down a back road near Freeport, Ohio, trudged a ragged, squint-eyed old man. His son was a cripple. He had sold his horse to buy bread. He now had nothing left but a dilapidated farm, a bank book showing 50,000 devaluated marks tied up in his native Germany...
Jules Sandoz was a dark-bearded, ragged young man of 26 when, in 1884, he settled near the upper Niobrara River. He had studied medicine in Zurich, quarreled with his father, left for the U. S. to make his fortune. In Nebraska he married only to leave his wife because...