Word: tagging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thirdly, the name Republican and Democrat proves itself to be nothing more than a tag. Neither the winning nor the dying group stand for their basic principles any longer with the result that there will probably be a realignment of parties, even if under the same name. Internal dissension in Democratic ranks should gradually make way for a new division such as conservatives and liberals. Fourthly and most important is the realization that the New Deal will proceed to its logical conclusion, with reactionary and Tory Republicans unable to impede its course...
...Edwards murder trial at Wilkes-Barre, Pa. for the evening Bulletin, we believe it only fair to correct a misstatement in the Oct. 15 issue of TIME which asserts Mr. Charles Israel, city editor of the Bulletin, claims for himself the credit for first attaching the "American Tragedy" tag to the Edwards trial...
...process of collecting the investment trusts which swelled Atlas Corp.'s resources from $14,000,000 to $121,000,000 in four Depression years Mr. Odlum of necessity picked up a rag, tag & bobtail assortment of assets along with the stocks & bonds of hundreds of major U. S. corporations. Among the barge lines, furniture factories, Long Island estates, vacant lots, amusement parks and fruit ranches was Bonwit Teller. Founder Paul J. Bonwit borrowed money from Ungerleider Financial Corp. to move up Fifth Avenue from 38th Street to 56th Street in 1930. As times went from bad to worse...
Author Bradford's Negro dialect has an authentic ring but is stamped with his own mark. In almost every book he introduces some memorable tag of nigger-talk. In Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun it was: "Soap an' water, country boy"- deep South for Broadway's "Oh, yeah?" In Let the Band Play Dixie it is the almost untranslatable "and de doctor can't do me no good"-an expression denoting joyful determination, usually in the direction of gin or gals. For fittingly strong words to express astonishment: "Well, do, my Redeemer!"* Sample...
Harvard retired in ignominious deffeat. Confident and jubilant, the Tag-and-Ticket boys clamor for a return engagement, to be played on the same ball-grounds next week...