Word: ragging
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...Rousseau windows, which he had already tried out in Hollywood, Saks's perky window designer James David Buckley chose six typical lush, salad-like Rousseau paintings, reproduced them in life-sized scenes with the help of rag-doll manikins, props of paper, cloth and wood. Window Dresser Buckley made each window represent a phase in the life of a woman. Rousseau's Portrait of a Young Girl, bloatedly enlarged, became "Her Awkward Age"; his Sleeping Gypsy, complete with mandolin and prowling lion, "Her Bohemian Period." Unlike previous art-conscious window displays, Buckley's contained no merchandise. Sole...
...released Working for the PWA; Working on the Project; Lost My Job on the Project; Don't Take Away My PWA ["Mr. President, listen to what I have to say; take away the whole alphabet, but don't take away the PWA"]. Columbia had a WPA Rag, a Pink Slip Blues low-moaned by oldtime Ida Cox. But WPA was different. Last week it was banned...
...middle thirties... "Perfidia" by Nana Rodrigo is listed as a bolero, but that's about as far as the boleroness of the thing goes. Sounds vaguely like a foxtrot that was told to go South American, met a rhumba on the way and gave up in the middle... Tiger Rag"--this tune has been torn apart for so many years by so many bands, that any version is apt to sound trite. At least however this Krupa version doesn't get out of taste very often and doesn't have any trombone "tiger" growls...
Until a few years ago linen rags were the only base for cigaret tissues. Then chemists made what seemed to many a layman an obvious discovery-that the rag stage could be bypassed and tissue could be made direct from flax. To U. S. flax farmers, principally in Minnesota, California and North Dakota, this means that Ecusta alone will take the crop from 75,000 to 100,000 acres. If other U. S. cigaret paper makers complete the switch from rag base to flax, farmers of another 75,000 to 100,000 acres will have found a market for their...
...Proceeding by bus from Ankara to Beirut, she was delayed by a breakdown in the middle of the salt desert of Konya. From the hovels of a dirt-poor Turkish village, the populace swarmed around. Out stepped "an elderly man whose head was wrapped in a dirty rag-possibly a turban, the wearing of which long ago had been banned by the late Kamal Ataturk. The old man, who had been taken prisoner by the Russians in the last war, addressed me in primitive Russian, filling out gaps in his sentence with childlike gestures...