Word: tatterdemalion
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...nighters crowded into a Berlin theater to see Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), composed by a young highbrow named Kurt Weill on a text by a proletarian poet named Bert Brecht. Nobody thought it would last more than a few performances. How could an eight-piece orchestra and a tatterdemalion cast compete with the great music dramas of Wagner and the moderns? But two years later, Threepenny Opera was still running, and since then it has had thousands of performances, including a handful in the U.S. Last week it was revived in Manhattan's tiny (300-seat) Theater...
...have fun":* Wendy and her younger brothers, John and Michael, who accompany Peter on his personally conducted flying tour of Never Land; that dark and dreadful man, Captain Jas Hook with his syrupy voice and steel-hook hand, and his comic-strip crew of pirates; the Lost Boys, a tatterdemalion band of motherless waifs; Tiger Lily, demure princess of the Piccaninny Tribe of Indians; a popeyed, ticktocking crocodile who continually stalks the hysterically frightened Hook...
...Embry advanced in tatterdemalion disguise, the British retreated. Once he got close enough to be in danger from their artillery, but he never managed to catch them. When he reached the Channel, he found every coastal boat, down to the smallest dinghy, smashed...
...they let him reign supreme over his subjects. Then in 1884 Europe began its mad scramble for Africa. Portugal's empire builders sent out their own resident governor, and Pedro and all his kind became mere pensioners. Last week, with 700 other pilgrims from Portugal's now tatterdemalion empire, another King Dom Pedro, successor to an empty title, was in Rome to celebrate the canonization of Portugal's missionary saint, Joāo de Britto...
Jacob S. Coxey, "General" of the famed tatterdemalion army of unemployed that marched from Ohio on Washington in 1894, still full of fight at 91, gave a Chicago isolationist gathering something to wrestle with: "The Government takes 20% out of your salary to pay you in terest on the 10% you have deducted from your salary to buy bonds. . . . Then they have to tax the people so the Government can pay interest to the banks, so the banks will support Government bonds upon which money is issued...