Word: rags
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Twelfth Street Rag...
...licensed and classified so that the air will at last have a traffic system. Beside this, the song writers and publishers are demanding aerial royalties. As they refuse to be satisfied with less than four hundred thousand dollars annually, there will probably be fewer mix-ups of concerts and rag-time. Even France is having such troubles. In the midst of a government concert which was being sent from the Eiffel tower, a voice interrupted in English to say that classical music was no good, and then a pianist gave a spirited rendition of "Casey Jones...
...Twelfth Street Rag...
...dining room" Miss Eustis explained, "where wool, peppers, onions, and corn are hung up about the room to dry. In the first act on a late September afternoon in 1820, before the marriage of Peetcha, Case Steenkoop's son; everything is in disorder. There are bits of dingy rag carpet on the floor; a single harness, cider jug, horse pall, and other things have been left carelessly about the room. By the second act, five years later, a woman has entered the house, the room is much neater, and a bright carpet has replaced the rags on the floor...
...hats that have lost their ideals, that no longer dream dreams or see visions; hats that have had the world too much with them--Harvard students wear them. Alas! these hats left in the Crimson Building will not be with us long. They have taken part in the jolly rag, tag, and bobtail of life; they have bowed to rosy--cheeked girls; their presence has brought smiles, sighs, soft words, and arch glances. But now they are almost forgotten. Life sweeps by in Plympton street outside. A false hope brightens the spirits of the hats as they wait...