Some spieler, Robbie; and whether or not that was just a josh about orchids bein' invented for her, there's no doubt but what ragtime was.
She plays ragtime "to beat the band," which is a good accomplishment over here.
A few violins and two drums were scraped together, and in half an hour we had a little orchestra playing such contagious ragtime that every one was jigging and beating time and cutting all sorts of capers.
A musically inclined private was playing ragtime on the piano, and another was trying to accompany him on the banjo.
Aflame with electric light they press through the dusk, and the ship's orchestra plays ragtime music.
She flew into the bath-room, scrubbed her face vigorously a moment, and then flying into her room grabbed her hat from its peg in the closet, and then hastened down the stairs humming blithely a new ragtime song as she went.
But the ragtime quivered pathetically into a half-wail.
She would sing; and her fresh young voice broke forth into ragtime song.
She had tried to induce her cousin to join her, but that young lady was absorbed in running over a newragtime song.
And I can hear the rackingragtime out of Shanley's.
As the last ruddy segment dipped under the horizon, a haunting haunted melody floated backwards upon the sighing day: "Look out, for the Goblin Man, That Ragtime Goblin Man!
From round the next bend still drifted snatches of the 'Ragtime Goblin Man'; evidently John had not yet spoken.
The best of our ragtime composers are Jews, a race which regards eating and cooking of sufficient importance to include rules for the preparation and disposition of food in its religious tenets.
This was ragtime music, then a novelty in New York, and just growing to be a rage, which has not yet subsided.
The other two are ragtime music and the cake-walk.
It was I who first made ragtime transcriptions of familiar classic selections.
Anyone who doubts that there is a peculiar heel-tickling, smile-provoking, joy-awakening charm in ragtime needs only to hear a skillful performer play the genuine article to be convinced.
By mastering ragtime I gained several things: first of all, I gained the title of professor.
I had been turning classic music into ragtime, a comparatively easy task; and this man had taken ragtime and made it classic.
At a word from the host I struck up one of my liveliest ragtime pieces.
When the guests arose, I struck up my ragtime transcription of Mendelssohn's "Wedding March," playing it with terrific chromatic octave runs in the bass.
I went to the piano and played the most intricate ragtime piece I knew.
The effect was surprising, perhaps even to the host; the ragtime music came very near spoiling the party so far as eating the dinner was concerned.
I fell into a fitful sort of sleep, with ragtime music ringing continually in my ears.
He paused, and as he did so, strains of ragtime music came to his ears.
There is ragtime literature as well as ragtime music for the many.
Lying snugly hidden he saw Gabe replace the little package, after which he stepped out into the trail, picked up the ragtime air just where he had dropped it, and came walking smartly along, a satisfied grin on his face.
Gabe had a big whistle, and used to amuse himself as he walked to and from home in trying to get the airs from the popular ragtime songs of the day.
The noisy ragtime had ceased, but a storm of deafening applause and cries of "Encore!
A string band was playing a ragtime tune when they entered the restaurant.
We began to sing the usual songs of the march and I noticed that the American ragtime was more popular among the boys than their own music.
Here the whole brigade, four battalions, had church parade, and after that the band played ragtime and the officers had a gabfest and compared medals, on top of which we were soaked with two hours' steady drill.
The spirit of ragtime determines the six best sellers, the most popular policeman, the favorite congressman, the wealthiest corporation, the church which soonest rents its pews.
The spirit of ragtime is not confined to music: graft is theragtime of business, the spoils system the ragtime of politics, adulteration the ragtime of manufacture.
But the moment that you limit ragtime to music you scatter untold clouds of doubt and place the inquirer in the comfortable position of having a fairly large working knowledge.
What is left for the inquirer to do is merely to distinguish ragtime from other kinds of music--after all, a rather simple task.
There's nothing more that you can do, and nothing you can mend, Only keep the ragtime playing to the end.
Women in the lifeboats, men upon the wreck, Take heart to hear the ragtime lilting down the deck.
During the catastrophe the band of the Titanic played negro melodies and ragtime until the last moment, when they broke into a hymn.
Dorothy had paused for a moment on the threshold of the theater, and was listening while the door swung to and fro behind her and syncopated the dull beat of the traffic in the Strand to a sort of ragtime tune.
Somebody sung a ragtime song, and the cabin took up the chorus.
We were sitting in our dug-out at a village the bawl of a donkey from Souchez, when a jew's harp, playing ragtime was heard outside.
Now and then, when they had leisure, they retired to inner rooms, divided by curtains from the shop, and sat on the knees of young British officers, while others played ragtime or sentimental ballads on untuned pianos.
A band played ragtime and light music while the warriors fed, and all these generals and staff officers, with their decorations and arm-bands and polished buttons and crossed swords, were waited upon by little W.
Long after we were in our beds that night we were kept awake by the sound of ragtime from the tent across the way.
The faded soprano, who had in better days sung before a King, was wearying as she reeled out ragtime with a strong Neapolitan accent.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ragtime" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
