Word: blackest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Forty-four million Italians are marching in unity behind our Army because the blackest injustice is being attempted against them-that of taking from them their place in the sun! ... It is against this Italian people to which mankind owes its greatest conquests-this people of heroes, of poets, of saints, of navigators, of COLONIZERS-that the world dares to threaten 'sanctions.' . . . Italy! Italy! entirely and universally Fascist, rise to your feet! Let the cry of your determination rise to the skies and reach our soldiers in East Africa. It is the cry of Justice and of Victory...
That night over a nationwide hook-up Senators. Congressmen, aviation and radio celebrities joined in a memorial broadcast to two of Oklahoma's favorite sons. Big, tough Colonel Roscoe Turner wept into the microphone. In Fairbanks Author Rex Beach said: "This is the blackest day Alaska has known." In Wall Street the stock of Fox Films, which had just agreed to pay Will Rogers $8,000 a week, sold off 1 1/4 points...
...meaning. Director Hoover began to look around for an entirely different type of man for his Bureau's front line. Politics were out. Today applicants must be not less than 25, not more than 35 years old. Their characters are more scrupulously investigated than those of the blackest suspect under Federal surveillance. They must be either law school graduates, certified public accountants, or experienced police officers. The last are much in the minority. Lawyers and accountants have the advantage of being already trained as expert court witnesses and if the applicant has the sort of honest face that a jury...
...Oration, mainly a history of the escapades of the afore-mentioned Lampoon. This was relieved by the action of an effective alarm clock and a bunch of sputtering firecrackers. F. Donovan Bisby, alias fictitious Lampoon character, came in for a good many tributes and was listed as being the blackest member of the Class...
Into bustling little Lourdes in the French Pyrenees last week moved a vast throng of pious folk including 60 members of the Roman Catholic hierarchy, silver-helmeted Vatican guards, healthy pilgrims and ailing pilgrims, devout European socialites, Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, and that Blackest of Catholic nobles, ex-Empress Zita of Austria bringing her boy Otto, Archduke pretender. In Lourdes 77 years ago, Catholics believe, a peasant girl named Bernadette Soubirous saw an apparition of the Blessed Virgin. Bernadette is now of the blessed company of saints (TIME, Dec. 11, 1933) and the Grotte de Massabielle, scene of the apparition...