Word: ragging
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Leading a Winner, a groom with a dirty rub rag looped from one hip pocket to another, leading a sweating thoroughbred into the paddock, the jockey hunched up like a peanut on his back...
...precisely 7:45 o'clock last evening an unidentified marauder threw four bricks wrapped in an oil-soaked rag through a side window of a house at 22 Plympton Street, and removed therefrom a lady's pocketbook containing $20 in checks and $10 in cash...
Although the mistress of the house commented with suspicion on the fact that the bricks came from the CRIMSON'S back yard, and that the rag was stained with printers' ink, a through checkup in this vicinity proved that such suspicions were both unfounded and unneighborly...
...recordings, made by the Rothschild Quartet-one of whom drops out in each series-which include selections from Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert. For students of swing, British Decca Records of London has made 14 records of rhythm accompaniment to such standard hot pieces as Dinah, St. Louis Blues, Tiger Rag, Dardanella. U. S. Decca Records plans to place them on sale in the U. S. within two months...
...saloon in Lakehurst, N. J. appeared John Henry Titus, 91, with a kerosene-soaked rag in his shoe to ward off mosquitoes. He sank to one knee, and, with gestures, once more recited his famous poem, The Face on the Barroom Floor. Poet Titus said he now makes his living picking huckleberries. He wrote his famed poem in 1872 as the fifth episode of a seven-canto poem: The Ideal Soul. The scene was taken from a tavern in Jefferson, Ohio. There are now more than 1,000 versions that have sprung up anonymously...