Word: tags
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tag day for benefit of charities or schools have you been tagged when you really did not want to be? Frequently? Occasionally? Never...
...innovations which Dr. Allport has begun in Social Ethics 8 appears at first much less important than it really is. The questionnaire seems a trifle amusing, dealing as it does with tag days and tonsorial applications, but the more reflection that takes place, the more sensible they appear. The whole method of approach must necessarily be directed along the most intimate and personal lines if the result is to be of any value...
...first indication of the changing trend of Harvard football was the disclosure yesterday of a new game, a cross between basketball and tag football, which will take an important place in the spring training of the University squad. The game is the invention of Major Fred W. Moore '93, and, so far as can be ascertained, nothing similar to it has been tried in any other university...
...personal. Thomas Nast, having just helped to upset the Tweed Ring in New York City by his cartoons, turned his devastating pen upon Greeley. Gratz Brown, a Missourian, who was Greeley's running-mate, was not known (by sight) in Manhattan, so Cartoonist Nast pictured him as a tag on Greeley's white coat. But Greeley fared even worse. A few days before the election Greeley's wife died. Greeley himself wrote a few days later: "I was the worst beaten man who ever ran for high office. And I have been assailed so bitterly that...
...gimmick" is a person who puts a price tag on everything he sees and a label on everything he thinks. Most musicians pride themselves on not being gimmicks. To differentiate themselves from this clan, they wear their hair longer; their neckties, their phrases, are more picturesque. The only criticism they fear is the accusation that they fear criticism, that they are trying to make themselves as gimmicks are. Not so Vincent Lopez, famed jazzbo. Music, he says, should ape business. Orchestras should have labels, price tags; the labels should stand for quality. Jazz is a commodity, like canned food...