She goes to the theatre a lot, and she had all the latest comic opera songs, like those of Anna Held and Marie Cahill, and she can play ragtime out of sight.
"The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories"
Charles Weathers Bump
It was a day of triumph for the Royal Flying Corps, and for all those boys with wings on their breasts, who, after their day's flight, come down to the French estaminets to rattle ragtime on untuned pianos, and give glad eyes to any pretty girl about, and fling themselves into the joy of life which they risk so lightly.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
But this means that the movement carries in itself the energy to spread farther and farther, and to fill the daily life with increased longing for the ragtime.
"Psychology and Social Sanity"
Hugo Münsterberg