Word: tatterdemalion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story.* The Alps, if they could, would have snickered in 1796 at a shaggy-haired, large-skulled, short youth of 27 with a tatterdemalion army at his back. He was part failure, part lover, part dangerous...
...while representing an infant republic. But the world- like the American people-demands today that the United States be less niggardly toward its officials abroad." Within the last two years Congress has also decided that something ought to be done to lift the U. S. diplomat out of the tatterdemalion era. In 1924 the Rogers Act combined the consular and diplomatic corps into a single foreign service, and increased most of the salaries. At the last session Congress passed the Porter Bill which provides for the gradual acquisition and construction of Official residences for U. S. ambassadors and ministers...
...room-leaving habit of "Bones" men has been burlesqued by members of other colleges, as for example the Princeton Triangle Club which more than once has inserted the sacred name in a line of its musical comedy and arranged that, as the line was read, several tatterdemalion vagrants in the audience should stumble to their feet and make for an exit...
...been recently stated not far from Harvard Yard--to be a saint one must have been a sinner. Yet all of this does not prevent the colonel from suffering the moral malignments of his superiors. The honored rights of host and guest bow to the higher standards of a tatterdemalion morality...
Recently there stood in the dock of the Old Bailey, famed London law court, one more tatterdemalion derelict of the thousands that file in and out of that hall of Justice every year. His furtive, watery eye, his mumbled speech and disconsolate countenance marked him for a waif indeed. He was penniless, friendless, and without an advocate...