Word: ragging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, a lop-eared Holstein-Friesian cow by the name of Pansco Hazel has been herded into a white barn on the dairy farm of Frank Pellissier near Whittier, Calif, and milked. Her average daily production: 37 qts. In her time, purebred Hazel (out of Hazel Colantha Rag Apple de Kol by Pansco Sequoia Adventurer) has seen hand milking bow to the machine age, has had her milk pasteurized and homogenized, has had 13 calves and is again pregnant...
...look; when he comes back, get up in fun And have a wrestle with him, just a rag; Then I'll jump up and slice him through the bag While he is struggling, thinking it a game; You draw your dagger too and do the same...
...husband's painting career began, she confided, at Fort Myer, Va. (when he was on duty at the nearby Pentagon after the war). He just called for "a rag, thumb tacks and a board." The rag turned out to be a dish cloth on which he painted an oil portrait of Mamie. "I just don't know the word for it," she said...
Runnin' Wild (Teddy Wilson and the All Stars; MGM, 8 sides). Old favorites such as Bugle Call Rag, Stompin' at the Savoy, I Surrender Dear, well played by the pixie-fingered professor (of jazz piano at Juilliard School of Music) and such cohorts as Trumpeter Buck Clayton, Vibraphonist Red Norvo. Not too well recorded...
...unidentified student or group of students blared selections, including Ball Hi and Tiger Rag, over a loud speaker in a music orgy that resounded throughout the House...