Word: rags
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cunningly. Then came a stranger, Jacques Ibert, with three pieces from his ballet suite, Les Rencontres, given its U. S. premiere a fortnight ago by the Boston Symphony. In conflicting keys, restless violins traced his vagaries of flower girls and Creoles in the Debussy manner, gossiping women, fishwives taken rag and bone from Stravinsky. Critics damned it, called it dull, found the Mozart and the Schumann a little tiresome too. They blamed the first on the breathless pat-a-pat reading of Conductor Damrosch, the second on the frigid finger tips of Pianist Cortot. All praise went to two Debussy...
...whole matter died away, but it was not forgotten. The loud grumbling of Delaware's Democratic Senator (see p. 10) was as nothing compared to rumors that presidential confidence could never again be respected as of yore; that the quaint rag-doll called "Spokesman" might be pitched aside and the President left without defense from his own tongue...
...Rag, and Bob-tall, in their best Array...
...thin red line," " 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy," "Sun comes up like Thunder," "Rag and a bone and a hank o' hair," "Oh East is East, etc.," "The tumult and the shouting dies," "Lest we forget," "The flanneled fools at the wicket, or the muddied oafs at the goals," "Who dies if England Live?" "Sisters under their skins," "The 'eathen in his blindness bows down to wood and stone," "You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din," and many another...
...Then Woodruff came out, and his letter 'H' acted upon the young academicians like a red rag upon a bull. Again yells, cat-calls exclamations, expletives, snatches of derisive song, more 'Rottens' and 'Oh, my's' all of it continuing for 15 minutes uninterruntelly...