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Word: rags (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bunted by one another's reputations and personalities if brought to such close quarters. With the option's expiration imminent, London alumni conducted dignified propaganda; London students-visualizing escape from "the merciless, grasping Bloomsbury landladies" into cloistered dormitories like those at Oxford and Cambridge-prepared a "rag" (street demonstration savoring of humor and earnestness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: In London | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

...knows at first hand all phases of American life; he has, too, a historical background against which to view the present scene in its proper proportion." Now the News writer, looking for some item on which he could compose an editorial that would entertain the chicle-chewing rag, tag and bobtail, happened upon Mr. Seitz's article, and the Outlook's comment upon Mr. Seitz. He noted with joy that Mr. Seitz had offered criticism on some of the more unfortunate elements of modern life-the very elements of which the News is Herald and High Defender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: THE PRESS: Insult | 2/1/1926 | See Source »

...Clothes. Jackie Coogan is still one of the greatest of actors, but his stories are getting just a trifle tiresome. This latest, perilously parallel to The Rag Man, shows him as a boy business man and a lover's confidant. Yet any picture with Jackie Coogan is good entertainment, provided it moves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 23, 1925 | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

...first ten men of each team were conarel in the scoring, figures rag very high ending an 86 to 124 victory for Arlington...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY WINS, 1929 LOSES IN CROSS-COUNTRY | 10/17/1925 | See Source »

...great secret of regulating the effervescence of champagne, late in the 17th century. Not only did he thus produce a perfect sparkling wine that gushed from the bottle and overflowed the glass, but he invented a system of cork's in place of the bit of oil-soaked rag that had hitherto been used; and, to humor his fancy, he adopted a tall thin tapering glass for the service of his wine in order that he might watch the play of the bubbles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Black Blight | 10/12/1925 | See Source »

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