Word: blacker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Future prospects looked even blacker. Nazi supply officers drove inconspicuously into the markets daily, loaded their trucks with staples in return for handfuls of worthless occupation marks. These were issued to soldiers and Nazi civil officers. Since the Germans controlled the gasoline supply, they could go the rounds of farms and "insist" on the farmers selling their products...
Even more modern omens were lacking : no bands of feverish citizens swarmed around newsstands to buy papers whose damp headlines hourly leaped higher and blacker; the radio was dull with soap operas and swing versions of Old Black Joe. On the surface, there was little tension...
...this a problem which will face the United States in doubled degree when the war has ended. A demobilized army and the collapse of defense industries will make blacker and more dangerous the post-war unemployment picture. Work-camps may not be a solution; they are an attempt at an answer. To the practical experiments now being undertaken, Harvard owes it to Williams James to contribute...
...since, Ward was soon given three spots a week, rushed from Berlin to Copenhagen, back to Berlin. Ward speaks American and wisecracks American. Of the blackouts in Copenhagen month ago he cracked: "Here all is darker than the Republican mood after the November election. . . . The streets of Copenhagen are blacker than Father Divine." Of English reverses in Norway he remarked facetiously: "Charlie McCarthy's Bergen is the only one of that name not entirely encompassed by Germans." Back in Berlin May 1 he joked about British efforts to save cloth: "London . . . theatre managers have already stripped their chorus...
...this was only the profile of the plot. Washington buzzed with blacker hints. The New York Sun said right out loud that the Dies Committee's counsel, ex-G-Man Rhea Whitley, knew about the letters in December, even knew about the plan to air them on the floor of the House. Mayne himself had told him, charged the Sun, and Mayne had also reported to the Dies Committee his negotiations with Jackson. Why had not Mr. Whitley spoken up? Said Congressman Marcantonio of New York: "If this statement is true, then the counsel of this committee engaged...