Word: blackest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fair contest to pick the blackest reactionaries in all Europe, Hungary's picturesque League of Awakened Magyars would win easily by several leopard skins- which Magyar nobles wear on state occasions slung across their hereditary, gold-frogged uniforms...
When Senator Couzens first introduced this resolution, his own State of Michigan was the biggest, blackest blotch on the banking map of the U. S. When S. J. R. 256 reached President Hoover's desk a week later, the banking map was badly pockmarked with many another big black spot. Behind the Michigan moratorium, the effects of which were just beginning to be felt elsewhere, lay three grinding years of Depression and 5,096 bank failures throughout the U. S. Nevada had clapped its bank doors shut in self-protection, Louisiana had taken an extra-legal breathing spell. Instead...
Clouds. In the shining sky at Demcratic headquarters in Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel, there were still a few dark clouds. Lowest and blackest was the money cloud. With a deficit hanging over, Democratic credit was none too good. Twenty-five-thousand-dollar contributions like Mr. Raskob's and Vincent Astor's were few & far between. The idea of small gifts from "forgotten men" had not proved a success. One week lately it was all headquarters could do to meet its $5,000 payroll. The campaign was largely being financed on more borrowed money and the hope...
...Though he lisps, the tone and personality of General Balbo are pugnacious, virile, truculent. *Blackest stain on the reputation of Blackshirt Benito Mussolini is the widespread notion that he personally ordered the assassination of the multi-millionaire Socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteotti, who was unquestionably done to Death by Fascists (TIME, June...
...Asiatic. Since there had to be dancing in the flower-decked ballroom last week, Premier Molotov had to act as host ? wearing what? Seen from a distance the short, square-headed, black-mustached Soviet Premier looked as though he were in a tuxedo. Actually he was in the blackest business suit he could find, his black tie fixed securely in place by pins in the tabs of his soft collar. Only ladies of the diplomatic corps were in low-cut evening gowns, only they wore jewels. Hostess Molotov, after careful thought, had done up her light brown hair...