Word: ragging
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...that are, in effect, moving stages for the outrageous and often obscene skits and tableaux they spend weeks devising. A week before Good Friday, while the capital watches goggle-eyed, the students belt down quantities of donated rum and parade the floats through the streets. Invariable topic of the rag: politics...
...unmarried mothers). Most UMs are under 20, victims of a lie, or of violence, or possessors of an over-generous nature. One of the most tragic cases in St. Anne's history: a ravished child of eleven who still believed in Santa Claus and carried a rag doll to bed with her each night. For the rest, "we get a girl who has slipped," Sister Winifred says, "but who is trying to do what is right...
...went on to The Rosary, Twelfth Street Rag, the Beer Barrel Polka, some fast, weak boogie-woogie, and his TV theme song, I Don't Care (which he dedicated to his critics). Between numbers he casually dropped the names of God, President Eisenhower, Paderewski and some of his 185 TV sponsors (notably a toilet-paper manufacturer). He also introduced Mom, who was proudly sitting in a spotlighted box, wearing mink and orchids...
...support him, but has to pay her so much attention in return that he is driven from keyboard to bar. In the end, of course. Actress Taylor sees the error of her ways and builds up the husband she has torn down, just in time for a gigantic Rachmaninoff rag at the finale...
Pearl Harper is barely five; too young to know more than that her rag doll is stuffed with green paper. John is nine; he knows what the paper is, and has sworn to his dad, just before the capture, not to give away the secret...