Word: raggedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The ragged crowd, awed by such a show of fair play, fell back, let Pace finish his harangue, unharmed and unattended.
None of these compared in size or determination with the B. E. F., last week estimated at 20,000 strong. Under Commander-in-Chief Walter W. Waters they were quiet, orderly, law-abiding. After the Senate rejected their demand, though, Washington grew taut with apprehension. What would these idle, ragged...
The Author. Brought up in a strict orthodoxy that disapproved of literature as a career, Authoress Mannin (born 1900) started writing young. Married at 19, she has one daughter, is now separated from her husband. She believes she is the only English authoress who both keeps house and pursues her...
Nepotism, Nerves. The House next declined to suspend Saturday half-holidays for Government workers (savings lost: $9,000,000), to abolish the Army & Navy transport service (savings lost: $2,000,000), to withdraw Federal aid from State vocational training schools (savings lost: $8,500,000). When a political idealist named...
In San Francisco last year Conductor Dobrowen gave tense, dynamic performances which made him more popular than quiet Basil Cameron. This year many of his concerts have been ragged because of hurried rehearsals. But San Francisco's music-wise feel that he will do well with his brief Manhattan...