Word: ragging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundreds of years, Paris' chiffoniers (rag pickers) had shuffled about quietly in the half-light before dawn, pawing through potato peels and rotten meat in their quest for a handful of old rags or an empty tin can. (Their .reward: for a kilo of rags, 4 francs; for a kilo of iron, half a franc...
...time she put her business affairs in the hands of Stella Karns, a businesswoman as bright and hard as a new dime. Stella muscled Mary Margaret into radio practically on her own terms. She also does as she pleases with Mary Margaret, of whom she snorts: "She chews the rag so much, it's a wonder she doesn't have lint on the lungs...
...when the Duke introduced "the legendary Django" from the stage, there were surprised murmurs and loud applause from the audience-and even greater applause when Django finished with Tiger Rag and Honeysuckle Rose...
...Tiger Rag - number un," the Duke said, holding up one finger. "First you play around . . . just a few riffs" (the Duke made guitar-strumming motions). "Then we give you a chord - wham, you go into Tiger by yourself and we start giving you the beat" (The Duke demonstrated on the piano.) "Understand?" Django grinned enthusiastically. They jammed for five minutes, until one by one the band boys left their cards, gossip and naps to gather around, shout encouragement: "Go to it, master. Yah, yah, yah." Says Duke: "Django is all artist. Jazz isn't exactly the word...
Picasso went through one six-month stretch when the only picture he did was a rag cut by a piece of string; and through another period when he tried his restless hand at poetry. Currently he calls himself a Communist, but his art would please no commissar. Author Barr more correctly calls Picasso an "intransigent" individualist...