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Word: ragging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
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...most part, it was Daughter Caroline, just turned three, who got Jack Kennedy's nonpresidential attention and a lot of the photographers' as well. One unforgettable shot: the President-elect, emerging from church, unconcernedly hanging on to a rag doll. Brimming with Kennedy energy, Caroline scooted around everywhere, once squeezed through her father's legs to steal the scene from a Lyndon Johnson-Kennedy photo session. "Daddy," said she, "tie my shoes, please." Asked if she would call her baby brother "Jack," she replied: "No. His name is John." But soon Kennedy called a halt to most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENT-ELECT: Life with Father | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

...course everyone with any sense knows what a terribly pro-Republican rag you are, and so I shouldn't subscribe to you at all. I do, in fact, cancel my subscription regularly, but you have such good writers I can't resist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 15, 1960 | 8/15/1960 | See Source »

Between 1923 and 1932 Schwitters published Merz magazine, in which he printed his own poems, views on art and passionate vindications of his use of rubbish in collages. As his movement flourished, he built a Merzbau in Hannover, where disciples could touch a rag that Schwitters asserted was Goethe's stocking, and a bottle of yellow liquid that he called the "urine of the Master." When Adolf Hitler came along, Schwitters' day in Germany was over. The Führer did not approve. In 1935 Schwitters fled Germany-first to Norway, then to England, where he died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: BIG DADA | 8/15/1960 | See Source »

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