Word: blackening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only to find that the ground they had chosen was too swampy to support the projected building. All work had to be abandoned, cranes and tools were left to rust. When Welles told these facts to a Russian girl, she said bitterly: "You are trying to blacken our dreams...
...sell well; neither did a subsequent one. In 1919 some of his friends-including Sickert and Max Beer-bohm-gave Walter Greaves a big dinner and a check for ?150. He died, grey and penniless, in 1930 in a London almshouse, dejected because the authorities would not let him blacken his hair, so that it would be like Whistler...
...Royal is not another onslaught on the old established fact of Southern discrimination; it is a blow at the smug white of the Northern cities-at the man who merely dabbled in race prejudice until the industrial needs of World War II caused thousands of migrant Negro workmen to blacken his lily-white doorstep...
...mouth, quoted first that old press baiter, Interior Secretary Harold Ickes: "When editors and publishers do not publish information or opinions which are extremely important for the interests of society as a whole, when editors distort events to serve special interests, and when they fabricate canards to blacken or eliminate unfavorable political candidates, then I the press deserves the severest criticism and condemnation...
...differ in degree and not in kind from the chaos of ravaged London ; one can die as miserably in the slums of Chicago as in the slums of Istanbul; and the assembly lines which in Detroit made automata of populations are ' yet first cousins to the factories which blacken the sky of Frankfort on the Main. We wandered into this iron theatre together; we confront together its strange confusions; and we shall find our way out together. Together, I think...