Word: blackest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...upper crust, however, Earl Baldwin fared less well. He affronted Whitehall by suggesting that the Colonial Office stop sending him suggestions and start sending money. He snooted officials of the U.S. military base on Antigua, and at one ball for blacks and whites condescended to dance only "with the blackest and ugliest" woman in the room. His favorite luncheon guest was a small pickaninny who wore nothing but a vest and a broad smile. Such eccentricities, the white colony complained, were a bad influence on the restless natives. Earl Baldwin was summarily ordered to take a plane home "to discuss...
While the Sword was intelligent (in a treasonable way), Captain Midnight combines the spirit of a college quarterback with the sagacity of a Pinkerton operative. Perhaps it is unfair to suggest that a streak of anti-intellectualism runs through this program and its fellows, but the blackest villains are generally smarter than the heroes, and considerably more sophisticated...
...eager freshman had driven a first-string tackle out of a play. When the big varsity man picked himself up, smiled and said, "Nice block," Coach Voigts got mad. "When the kid dumped you," he said, "you should have snarled." On Saturday against Minnesota, just when things looked blackest, the Wildcats began to snarl...
...interviews. In his acceptance speech, without makeup, he looked a little like a baby-faced Lincoln. A Charles of the Ritz cosmetician touched up the wives of the candidates with purple lipstick, and a Chestnut Street barber advertised "television shaves." Singer James Melton's beard photographed as blackest of the week-with quick-footed Commentator Ben Grauer running a whisker behind. Grauer grumbled: "I have a very serious problem. I put on makeup, but people still say 'Why doesn't Grauer shave...
Economic Boss Sir Stafford Cripps, more than any of his cabinet colleagues, believes in frankly telling Britons what they face. Last week his White Paper (Economic Survey for 1948) gave them the blackest news yet. Even with Marshall Plan aid, said his report, Britons' standard of living at year's end will be "appreciably, but not disastrously" lower than last year's. Without such aid, Britain would be flat broke (in terms of dollars). Food rations would have to be cut to near-starvation levels. Imports of raw materials would have to be slashed, causing mass unemployment...