Word: ragging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rag...
...corker. There is real drama there, too, strange as it may seem, and thrilling suspense. That haunting, beautifully-mournful Lata vian legend will chase cerie shivers up and down your back. And the mass staging is superb. Miss McCormick dances, the chorus dances, and a set of little rag dolls dance, all well...
...undergraduate's interest. It is hardly too much to say that the recent break between Princeton and Harvard was treated in the press as a diplomatic break between the United States and Mexico would be treated. Hubbard has written to this public and so given them another dirty rag to chew...
...half a century since a newspaper could be called, with any degree of accuracy, a "rag." The newspaper files of any large library prove this. Editions aged anywhere from 5 to 50 years are yellowed, brittle, flimsy to the touch. They are printed on wood-pulp paper which ages swiftly. But where editions containing accounts of the Battle of the Marne have already become illegible, editions narrating the Battle of Gettysburg, though handled far longer, remain strong and unfaded. They are on paper made from rags...
Last week the New York Times, expense notwithstanding, began to print a special limited edition daily on 100% rag paper, advertisements, obituaries, rotogravure and all - for the benefit of file-keepers. Considering the completeness and authority of the Times and the aid to future historians promised by its new edition, friends of the Times were more than ever inclined to call it, with unwonted accuracy, "grand old rag...