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Definition of Ragtimes
1. ragtime [n] - See also: ragtime
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ragtimes
Literary usage of Ragtimes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Misalliance: The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, and Fanny's First Play. With a by Bernard Shaw (1914)
"Just at present our young people are going mad over ragtimes, apparently because
syncopated rhythms are new to them. If they had learnt what can be done ..."
2. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1891)
"... of the mother's family лг other relations ; <• ragtimes again a second praenomen
is put in, ..."
3. Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856: From Gales and by United States Congress, Thomas Hart Benton (1861)
"will be supposed that we are afraid to ni«t '•'••' moneyed responsibility of
war—the only irresponsibility of a country at war in ragtimes. ..."
4. A Picture of Modern Spain: Men and Music by John Brande Trend (1921)
"ragtimes and selections from comic operas definitely did not do as entr'actes ;
and in the course of the play one could not help realizing how right ..."
5. The Merry-go-round by Carl Van Vechten (1918)
"... (Texas) band as one of its most efficient members, composing in his leisure
moments, marches, ragtimes, waltzes, song and dance schot- tisches, etc. ..."
6. American Catholics in the War: National Catholic War Council, 1917-1921 by Michael Williams (1921)
"... skinned Argentinians, where slant-eyed Asiatics listen to the lilting ragtimes
tinkled off on a shop-worn piano at the hands of an Americanized Italian. ..."
7. Nights in London by Thomas Burke (1918)
"... the theatres had started work; there was nothing left but to sit in beer-
cellars and listen to dreary bands playing ragtimes and bilious waltzes. ..."
8. The Merry-go-round by Carl Van Vechten (1918)
"... (Texas) band as one of its most efficient members, composing in his leisure
moments, marches, ragtimes, waltzes, song and dance schot- tisches, etc. ..."
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