Word: rags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sent an investigator hustling off to get the mink coat-he came back with an ermine wrap, too, that the state had overlooked. Then the city called in a furrier and triumphantly announced that the mink was worth a mere $300 and that the ermine was just a "worthless rag." Somehow this simply stirred things...
World Forum. Nobody ever accused Foreign Affairs of being exciting reading; the magazine and its readers are much too serious to worry about boring anybody. A forum for high, grey brows, Foreign Affairs offered "a broad hospitality to divergent ideas." In its sober rag pages, chancellors, premiers and secretaries of state, in & out of office, have debated the issues of their day. France's Premier Poincare, Germany's Chancellor Wilhelm Marx, Czechoslovakia's President Thomas Masaryk discussed war guilt. Colonel E. M. House and Massachusetts' intransigent nationalist Henry Cabot Lodge argued the merits of the League...
...good Irish name McNally, but the spinsters in the border town of Carrickmacross were not to be hoodwinked. Up & down the border they sent the rumor flying: "'tis the British want our cats. They'll eat them, and they're that hard up for a rag to put on their backs, they'll even skin them." From Carrick to Ballyshannon and back to Castleblayney the old maids nodded and locked up their pets. "Men are even stealing cats to sell to the British," said one woman to a TIME correspondent last week. "Do you know," said...
...sides). The hot-jazz cultists insist that the Armstrong of the '20s is the true Armstrong, but he was going strong when he made these records with a mediocre, hastily assembled crew. What counts is Satchelmouth's relaxed singing and trumpeting of such classics as Tiger Rag, On the Sunny Side of the Street, St. Louis Blues. Recording: good...
Investment Banker Willard H. York, 36, hustled his wife, mother, son & daughter into the family sedan and began the usual Sunday drive from his ranch to church in San Antonio. He had a particularly gritty rag to chew over with his conscience. On March 19, the SEC had filed suit against him. It charged that York had done business while insolvent, and had used customers' securities without their consent. The same day, Dr. Lloyd Irving Ross, one of San Antonio's top surgeons, had filed suit for $80,279. Dr. Ross was an old friend, a fellow Methodist...