Word: rags
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rag business, as the $12 billion-a-year garment industry dubs itself, is stretching out. In the lofts above the pushcart pandemonium of Manhattan's Seventh Avenue, Italian seamstresses have given way to Negroes and Puerto Ricans, and in carpeted executive suites, the district's predominantly Jewish chiefs proudly point out that more and more young gentiles are coming in as junior executives. The most significant change, however, is that giants are beginning to appear in an industry where the average firm has 40 employees. Biggest of them all is Jonathan Logan, Inc., whose sales, running 34% ahead...
...many people know this side of the man. He is perhaps most content while walking through a park-or climbing to the top of Old Rag, his favorite mountain in the Blue Ridge chain. Up there he may be alone-as he often is-but in a political and philosophical sense, he will be master of all he surveys. "I love these mountains," says Virginia's Senator Harry Flood Byrd. "I like to look out over the ridges and valleys and watch the changing shadows...
...painting divides into two epochs: before and after the Armory Show of 1913. That year, from the vaulted bastion of Manhattan's 69th Regiment, Marcel Duchamp's stroboscopic Nude Descending a Staircase strode jerkily into public awareness; Tin Pan Alley came up with That Futuristic Rag; and the nation was swept up in a fever of excitement over something called Modern Art. Of the many artists who rallied behind this great debut of modernism, one stands as the prime mover: Arthur Bowen Davies...
...pleasantly meandering way, Moore's work is an offhand introduction to etymology, a tribute to the language's first lexicographer. Dr. Johnson and a bright rag bag of quotations Moore happens to like. He ridicules the late George Bernard Shaw for his obsession with simplified spelling, correctly observing that tidied spelling would sterilize English of the still traceable ancient origins visible in its words...
Dave, tell me. so what happened to the other girl? Dave, you know it will hurt the store. So why do you let it happen? . . . Irving, so why doesn't someone pick up this shirt? It looks like a schmuttie [rag]. And Irving, take more of this colored costume jewelry out of the drawers and put it on the cases. In two weeks it's not worth a nickel. So why don't you have it all out now? You don't want we should get stuck with it, do you. Irving?" Initial Offer...