Word: raggedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ragged Regiment. Because hardly anything symbolic of British royalty is ever thrown away, the effigies of king after king and queen after queen accumulated for centuries in Westminster Abbey. Their paint flaked; their plaster cracked; worms burrowed through their woodwork; the disrespectful boys of nearby Westminster School named them "the...
At 25, Kirstein faced up to it: ballet interested him most of all. He found that existing U.S. dance troupes were far from good enough. "They were ragged and individualistic, with no particular style because their dancers came from all over." He decided to start a school. Out of his...
This was a rough, sometimes ragged, always exciting game. The teams were tied four times.
Outside on the street, it was a warm afternoon. In Jordan Marsh's windows were scenes of local churches, seen through a revolving glass, ersatz snow falling, like through a Bendix window. A Salvation Army band moved up and played carols. The trumpeter looked like Boston's own Major Barbara...
Normally policemen do not investigate the lives of ragged men who die in cheap rooming houses. But in Rodger P. Stewart's case they had a sound reason. They discovered why he kept visitors out. Behind his padlocked closet door lay a Gladstone bag. The bag contained jewelry, $30...