Word: rags
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Across St. Louis's twisty Free Bridge last week went a rag-tag troupe of some 300 men clad in odds & ends of martial raiment-an old overseas cap here, a dirty olive drab tunic there. A few carried pails in which to make coffee and stews, a few carried clubs. The latter served as "military police." They were supposed to suppress vandalism, prevent radical speechmaking, see that none of the company begged or got drunk. One man carried clippings to show that before the Depression he was an Omaha broker who was ordered to pay $45,000 alimony...
Outside in the rain Manhattan traffic ground endlessly by with scarcely a pause where small boys cluttered the sidewalk under the big electric sign of Madison Square Garden. But inside it was a different world. Harlem Negroes, East Side Jews, a rag, tag & bobtail from the four corners of New York jostled Park Avenue socialites in the corridors. A dozen languages merged into a humming background for the sharp cries of men selling balloons, noisemakers, dolls, mickeymice, pink lemonade gone modern in bottles, popcorn, peanuts (5˘ outside, 10˘ within), frankfurters and colored parasols. Over all sounded the neighing of horses...
...play begins rather slowly and the tendency to moralize is perhaps so apparent. But Tom Powers puts he show over with such refreshing naturalness and wit that one cannot help becoming enthusiastic over his worth, Helen Rag as Mrs. Mitchell, Francis Compton as the impossible Helford and Shepperd Strudwick rejoicing in the name of Prince Ivan Gregorievifel Sneojaganeenoff, head an able supporting cast...
...like the way your magazine clicked on young Mr. Cord. This human dynamo deserves everything you said about him. As far as some bluenoscs giving your rag the quit, you know this is a lot of bologny. This reason, well, where would they get the news as TIME gives it to them. ''Try and get it.'' A little dynamic expression will not harm the best of us. In fact, there is a lot of us that need a stick of dynamite set off under us these days...
...piano recital, which will be in the Large Common Room of the Union at 7.15 o'clock, is to be given by William Deitelbaum '35. He will present a program of modern music, which includes a novellette number, "Dizzy Fingers," "Doing the New York," and "Tiger Rag...