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Word: tatterdemalion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dreamlike quiet in Madrid during which not a shot was heard another furious bombardment was launched in which correspondents counted a shell every ten seconds. Across the Straits of Gibraltar from Spanish Morocco, Generalissimo Franco rushed 14,000 more troops, some of them foreign volunteers and tatterdemalion striplings. In a few weeks he will sidetrack great numbers of troops to reap the July grain harvest if he wants his soldiers to have enough to eat this autumn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Death of Mola | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

Honduras. While tatterdemalion Christians sought refuge in the catacombs beneath Pagan Rome, the Mayas of Central America were spreading from city to city a glittering civilization. One such metropolis was Copan. Archeologists were at work there a half century ago, unearthing elaborately carved steles and sacrificial altars. Last year earthquakes rocked the region, sent some of the ruins tumbling into the Copan River. At the invitation of the Honduras Government, a commission from the Carnegie Institution of Washington arrived last month to undertake restoration and protection. Behind a collapsed wall Head Commissioner Gustav Stromsvik was startled to find stone staircases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 3/18/1935 | See Source »

...case without trouble. But a number of the members [of the House] are afraid if I waive immunity they will be bothered in the future by charges for little things. . . ." Finally he changed his mind again and agreed to a trial by jury. A mob of long unpaid, tatterdemalion Chicago schoolteachers invaded big Chicago banks to demand cooperation between banks and the taxless school board. Melvin Alvah Traylor put them off with an "I agree with you." Charles Gates Dawes cowed them with: "To hell with trouble makers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sequels | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

...Penny Opera (words & music by Bert Brecht & Kurt Weill; John Krimsky $ Gifford Cochran, producers). The pedigree of this tatterdemalion opera bouffe is long and diffuse. From the 200-year-old John Gay libretto, Messrs Brecht & Weill made a modern German adaptation. It became a cinema and an operetta called Die Dreigroschenoper. These played about the European capitals with marked success. Then Messrs Krimsky & Cochran anglicized the operetta, first naming their production The Beggar's Opera, then The Three-Pence Opera, then The 3-Penny Opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 24, 1933 | 4/24/1933 | See Source »

...Communists demonstrating before the Capitol stole the headlines from Congress on its opening day. Last December 1,600 Red hunger-marchers demanding relief were the centre of interest. This year Senators and Representatives managed to hold the spotlight only because Superintendent of Police Ernest W. Brown cooped up a tatterdemalion army of 3,000 Red demonstrators in the suburbs two miles from the Capitol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: 72nd's Last | 12/12/1932 | See Source »

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