Word: ragging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sharkey's Southern Comfort (Sharkey Bonano; Capitol; 6 sides 45 r.p.m.). One of New Orleans' favorite jazz combos helps prove, with spirited renditions of Temptation Rag, Basin Street Blues and four others, that the Dixieland tradition still flourishes in its old home town...
...rest of the Advocate is mediocre. James Chace's "The Mariner," a story about a little boy in a sailboat who finds a body, is a humid mass of sensory impressions thrown like a wet rag at the reader; the boy, boat, and body get lost in the flood. William Morgan's "The Cowgirl" is a long synoptic anecdote about a girl from Alabama who goes to New York with a man named Goldstein and ends up shooting at him through a bathroom door. The humor of the piece hangs largely on the contrast between the girls' quaint narrative style...
...perpetrators of the stunt, a Lowell and a Leverett House man thoughtfully left a note in the tower explaining how to remove the green paint with a damp rag...
...trays, like those at the Graduate Center, are divided into six pie-like sectors, with a hole in the center for a cup or glass. Unlike the old Devinewear, they will be made from a new plastic instead of old G.I. socks and underwear. The lack of a rag content makes the new trays easier to break and less heat resistant...
Many of them were just barely able to hobble. They put one frozen, straw-shod and rag-bound foot in front of the other, at a pace that could not have exceeded a few hundred yards an hour. Some of them wept with pain as they walked, others lay sprawled grotesquely on the frozen stubble by the roadside, in the deathlike sleep of utter exhaustion. One R.O.K. rifleman was crawling on his hands and knees, his Garand still slung across his back, when some G.I.s with an I. and R. (Intelligence and Reconnaissance) platoon found him and packed...