Word: blight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Criticism to the left of him, enmity to the right of him, jealousy in front of him, the Red Army behind him, a high fever within him, all tried to blight him. He resolved to take a trip to the Caucasus, to regain his health...
...election held Nov. 7, 1922, at which time the vote stood 106,910 for and 92,530 against the bill, being a majority of 14,380 in favor of it. TIME is now an indispensable periodical and you are rendering inestimable service to the busy man. REYNOLD E. BLIGHT. Yes, a slip. All thanks to Subscriber Blight...
...leading manufacturers have recently precipitated more trouble by announcing further price cuts. This occurrence has thrown quite a blight over the plans of many car makers to raise prices next season to a point where larger profits, could be seen in the business. Instead, the coming issue will apparently be the survival of the fittest, with the probability that weaker concerns will either retire or consolidate...
With a pessimism natural in disappointment those who had vision of a glorious efflorescence of genius fear the bloodless dominion of my evalism. It is thought that literature and the arts cannot endure the blight of a new are of Babbitts But paradox as it is, the post-war idealists are almost too practical for practical purposes. If they would embody their ideals at once into institutions, they would take away the incentive needed for further progress. Given a vision plus an obstacle hindering its attainment, one has the true settings which makes for intellectual advancement...
Raftery and Hilaria were married, with a street woman and a beggar to witness; and Raftery spared the Welshman of his dagger when the cringing misshapen scoundrel would have spread the past like a blight over the newly wed couple. They went out upon the open roads to County Mayo; and when she made her confessional, telling of her eagle heart and her childhood's hard usage, Great Raftery laid aside his harp and caught...