Word: blacker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...picayune messenger boys issue (TIME, Dec. 9), then the MacDonald Cabinet was as good as done. But Mr. Lloyd George is peculiar. Like the Heathen Chinee, he and his Liberals sat impassive, refused to go into either division lobby, abstained from voting. Scowling, the Conservatives followed the Clydesiders; scowling blacker the regular Laborites filed into the Government's lobby. The result looked grave. Scot MacDonald, who weathered the messenger boy crisis with a majority of 70, squeaked through last week with an ominous...
...Congress and nominated my first candidate for West Point I picked the blackest boy I could find anywhere. My appointee has been writing disheartening letters. ... If the young man gets cold feet and quits West Point because of any racial discrimination, next time I'll appoint a bigger and blacker Negro...
Within a few minutes after the booklet was out, last week, shares of the British Royal Mail slumped from 55 to 45-representing an aggregate loss of something like $15,000,000 to thousands of small investors. Things looked all the blacker because for several months there has been a slow decline in BRM securities...
...Prize for the best novel of 1928 was unofficially revealed to be a novel called Victim and Victor, by a man named John Rathbone Oliver. Wise literary prophets had been forecasting winners and raising authorial hopes, but none had mentioned Victim and Victor. It was a literary dark horse blacker than night...
...just issued an excellent Pilgrim's Progress, although many will not like it. The book is beautiful, nevertheless,--possibly too traditionally conventional,--but in it the spirit of Bunyan comes back to us again, with his mourning garments and his somber musings embodied in the black binding, the blacker wood-cuts, and the heavy solid page...