Word: raggedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hiring Bosses. The stevedore companies also paid to get on good terms with the hiring bosses on the piers. The hiring boss runs a dockside institution known as the "shape-up," a ragged morning muster of all the local union longshoremen who want to work. Since there are usually more...
Reviving after two periods of ragged play, the freshmen scored six times in the final period. Defenseman Mario Cell and Phil Price and third line left wing Albie Wells each scored once, as freshman coach Myles Huntington alternated three lines and three defenses throughout the game. Goalie Charlie Flynn had...
"On Thursday night, went to the Ragged School," he wrote, "and an awful sight it is ... I have very seldom seen, in all the strange and dreadful things I have seen in London and elsewhere, anything so shocking as the dire neglect of soul and body exhibited in these children...
The Ragged Schools (set up by private charity for England's poor) promptly got support from Miss Coutts, and landlords in the slums were encouraged to install sanitary facilities by the good lady's promise to meet all costs above a basic minimum. The novelist and the heiress...
JEAN AUGUSTS DOMINIQUE INGRES, a rare look at the work of a conservative 19th century (1780-1867) French master who was never fully appreciated in the U.S. during his lifetime. The Ingres Museum in his native Montauban has combed its collection of 4,000 paintings and drawings, sent over 53...