Word: rags
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Massillon gave the old gentleman an attentive ear because he was no less a person than Jacob Coxey, 76. It was from Massillon in the Spring of 1894 that "General'' Coxey led his rag-tag and bobtailed army of unemployed across the country to the Capitol at Washington to demand relief. That march made its leader famous, though it failed to advance the bizarre economic cause for which he staged it. The Coxey plan for unemployment relief in 1894 and 1931 was to have States and municipalities issue 25-year non-interest bearing bonds to be deposited with...
Interesting among ancient traditions of the sheet is the "rubber da rag" (read the paper) anecdote. The story is told of a new man in the ad alley, a chap who was assigned the job of setting up an ad for one of Butte's big department stores. This man had begun his task when it occurred to him that perhaps the store in question employed individual makeup and type. He asked the boss of the ad alley about it. The boss, a squat and blue-jowled individual, spat on the floor, observed "Jeest...
...Gold Coast 'Juniors' will render "Would You Like to Take a Walk?", and "Alexander's Rag Time Band." Following a novel feature. "The Pyorrhean Sorority," the Vocal Club will reappear to sing "Heidelberg" and "Australia...
...special permission of the copyright owners the Gold Coast 'Juniors' are planning to play "Would You Like to Take a Walk?", and "Alexander's Rag Time Band". As the program draws to a close, the audience will be treated to a performance of the so-called "Pyorrhean Sorority," after which the Vocal Club will reappear to sing "Heidelberg" and "Australia...
...death in childbirth during the Caporetto retreat of 1917. There are numerous incidental characters who inhabit the play as they did the novel; but in the novel they were neat carvings on a walnut shell. In the play they are thinned and twisted into a helter-skelter, rag-rug pattern. Mr. Stallings is not to be censured for what he has done in all force and sincerity. But it takes more than force to expand a small frieze and keep it significant...