Word: blackest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down in the pretty (but mortgaged) cottage and have had their first child, an amazing infant who has done no mean growing in her first four summers (played with delicate tenderness and piping falsetto by Robert Hormell). The plots of Squire Cribbs (snarled by James Wood from behind the blackest of moustaches) come to early fruition as the supple husband is delivered into the power of Demon Rum. Lower and lower sinks our here until the very meanest of New York's gutters will no longer accept his drink-rotted carcass. Honest Will Dowton sticks by him and appears...
...politician may blink demagogery, deception, bribery, waste, graft or outright thievery in his associates but, with sound reason, he regards ingratitude as the blackest and basest of crimes. Last week Mississippi's Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo made his first real news as a U. S. Senator when he opened fire on a fellow-Mississippian as a double-dyed political ingrate...
...assassin of the Dictator's "Dear Friend Sergei" Kirov (TIME, Dec. 10). Two thousand Red Army troops, their greatcoats nearly sweeping the ground, guarded historic Smolny Institute. There Red Boss Kirov of Leningrad was shot in his Party headquarters, and there last week Assassin Nicolaev was tried in blackest secrecy...
...four years. Pullman lost money last year and the year before but as late as 1930 it rolled up earnings of $16,000,000. Well-buttressed with cash ($36,000,000 at the end of September), with no bonds, no preferred stock, it paid a $3 dividend through the blackest years of Depression...
Devout Catholics, the King, Queen and Princess were greeted by that blackest of blacks, Zita, widow of His Apostolic Majesty the late Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary who reigned for two years as successor to Franz Josef, died deposed and broken-hearted at Funchal, Madeira. Last week Zita's well-trained Habsburg retainers did meticulous royal honors to the sovereigns of Italy, who behaved in every way as if their hostess were still an Em press. Getting down to brass tacks with royal directness, they proceeded to dicker, with Princess Maria sitting in, over whether Maria should marry Zita...