rag-time

It will resist the popular demand for “the ‘rag-time’ and the sex-dances” of “the ex-African,” as Zangwill put it in the afterword to the play.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

Then by what right did Martin Eden emerge, as he had so recently emerged, from his rag-time and working-class songs, and pass judgment on the world's music?

Chapter 24 2010

Your songs —? rag-time rot that's never printed and that's sung only by a pack of fake Bohemians.

THE TASTE OF THE MEAT 2010

Mind, and muscle, and stamina, and soul, were challenged in a contest with this Shorty, a man who had never opened the books, and who did not know grand opera from rag-time, nor an epic from a chilblain.

THE STAMPEDE TO SQUAW CREEK 2010

It was Mrs. Mason who first asked that Paula play; but it was Terrence McFane and Aaron Hancock who evicted the rag-time group from the piano and sent Theodore

CHAPTER XI 2010

A little later, Graham, along with Bert, encountered the girls in the morning room, where, despite an hour of rag-time song and dancing and chatter, he was scarcely for a moment unaware of a loneliness, a lack, and

CHAPTER XII 2010

His nature opened to music as a flower to the sun, and the transition was quick from his working-class rag-time and jingles to her classical display pieces that she knew nearly by heart.

Chapter 8 2010

Bert Rhine and his crowd are full of rag-time junk, and one phrase that has caught the fancy of all hands, and which they roar out at all times, is: IT'S A BEAR!

CHAPTER XLIII 2010

With a cane in his other hand, he dances out of view singing ‘Hello my baby, hello my darling, hello my rag-time gal …’.

I’M SO CLOVER YOU, FIELD 2008

"Boomalay, boomalay, boomalay boom/A roaring, epic, rag-time tune/From the mouth of the Congo/To the mountains of the Moon."

A fresh look ... Frank Wilson 2006