Word: blackeners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...situation by pointing out that almost any ambitions man is, in a sense, "dissatisfied" that it is inherent in human nature to always want more than one already has and that many of the 2259 simply refuse to become overcome by inertia. But it is equally, easy to blacken the picture by assuming that the Alumni Appointment Bureau has not a complete file of the jobless and dissatisfied...
...usual emphasis placed on the private life of the once great men. Mr. Thaddeus adds a certain vindictiveness that is not to be found in most authors. That the attempt to blacken the name of Rome is more or less intentional is shown clearly by the preface, and throughout the work there is a use of invective that would have shamed even Cicero in his bitterest mood...
Having built up an apparently substantial case on the grounds that the enchanting evangelist did not hire a substitute to impersonate her at beautiful Carmel-by-the-Sea and that consequently anyone who so accused her was attempting to blacken her reputation the defense now turns a complete somersault and tacitly admitting the possibility, even the probability, of such a move, argues that the action does not constitute a crime. Socrates himself could not have more cleverly retreated from a cloud of threatening evidence; even Gratian would have been forced to admire the constitutional genius who prepared the briefs...
...teamed together in the days when trainmen booted them off freights. Those days are long ago for Dempsey; his critics declare that he has softened; it is true. How could it not be true? Only when he is in the ring do those days come back. Then his brows blacken in a manner unbecoming to the hero of a sentimental cinema; his body, muscled like a panther cat's, seems to ignite with malice, to burn and flash; then his fists reach out, savagely, lethally, to destroy the weaving shape in front of him and get revenge for something...
...rained. Cozily seated at green-gold tables in the green-gold Hotel Imperial, Tokyo, wealthy wayfarers watched the sky blacken through the rain. All over Tokyo it rained...