Word: blacken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lakefront but in Seattle's Puget Sound - they would have received a punctiliously polite welcome. But the average U. S. citizen would have felt about the same as the average Frenchman felt last month when Balbo's armada came roaring across the Alps out of Italy to blacken the skies of France. Last week France's Air Ministry an nounced a program to reassure her uneasy citizens. The French air force will stage a mass flight of its own. Twenty-two bombers will set out in October from Istres Airdrome in southern France. They will cross...
...action against Chairman Walker. Nor did he-as he would have done a few years ago-loose a withering blast at the News from the gaudy pages of his Post. Instead he marched into court, demanded $200,000 damages for an attempt "to injure and aggrieve Bonfils and to blacken his good name and reputation." Also he requested that the three defendants be "committed to the common jail of the city & county . . . until whatever judgment obtained against them has been paid...
...damages. The convicted man was freed on $100,000 bail while he appealed for-and won-a new trial because the court had forbidden testimony relating to Miss Pringle's character. The defense charged a conspiracy by Miss Pringle and her partner, one Nicholas Dunaev, to blacken Pantages' reputation after he had rejected their stage act. Following his acquittal the showman announced he would open a new circuit of 30 theatres...
Declared the judge to the prisoner-at-the-bar: ''What you need is for me to have you in a two-by-four room. What I would do to you! I'd blacken your eyes and give you some real American spirit and do for you what your parents should have done. . . . We spend billions in this country for schools and what have we educated here-a mongrel and a moron. . . . I have six kiddies myself and my oldest girl is ten. She knows who God is and the laws of the country. Down at my house...