Word: raggedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"What is our amazement to find Governor Smith enthroned in the camp of the enemy, warring like one of the Janizaries of old against his own people. . . . The Brown Derby has been discarded for the high hat. . . . Yes, Governor Smith, it was as difficult to conceive you at that Liberty...
More in the nature of spectators than opponents were the ragged anti-Long array: old-line New Orleans Democrats; New Dealers, politically anemic in spite of spoonfeeding by Postmaster General Farley; reform zealots; lady Long-haters.
The circulatory system is vigorous and the glandular balance is such as to make King Edward a man who for 20 years has kept going at a pace which runs his aides-de-camp, his servants and friends ragged.
On the North Front there was little doubt that Italian forces had either been driven from Tembien Province north and west of Makale or had withdrawn voluntarily. Repeatedly Addis Ababa claimed that Makale had fallen but Italians held it strongly entrenched and Ras Seyoum, Ethiopia's hulking northern commander...
In one picture Dix put a touch of humor. Five men stand with an amazing indifference and nonchalance before a savage looking officer who has evidently done his best to call them to attention. They are of all sizes and shapes, and their ragged uniforms either hang off them limply...