Word: blot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...imagine any greater calamity which could have befallen this family? ... If this wife and mother, this husband and these faithful boys go to the penitentiary, it won't be the first time the penitentiary has been sanctified by its inmates. But if they go, it would place such a blot on the fair name of this island that all the Pacific Ocean could not wash it away. . . . Every instinct that moves human beings is with us in this case. . . . Lieut. Massie is not a small man, except in size. There is no cowardice, no fear in him. . . . What's that...
...Salonica the unwritten Greek law about Jews worked again last week. Eight Greeks, shown by overwhelming testimony to have set the Jewish quarter of the city afire last June, were called by the Greek prosecutor "guilty of excesses which are a blot on civilization"-but he asked acquittal for six of the blotters and only four months imprisonment for the other two. Promptly the Greek jury, unwilling to punish even two blotters, acquitted all of them...
...Depot, Hotel Continental). Edmund Goulding's direction is brilliant but the picture's greatest virtue, as it should be, is its acting. Garbo is less numb than usual and gives her best performance. John Barrymore makes the Baron a scapegrace so admirable as to be a larger blot upon the escutcheon of the Hays organization than six gangsters. Lionel Barrymore makes you believe that his collar is an inch too big for him. Good shot : the lobby of the Grand Hotel, looking down from a balcony on the sixth floor...
...back north again the dancing took on new, hectic energy. Drably uniformed workmen hopped about automatically, rebelliously, before a stock ticker largely labeled. A gasoline filling station, two bathtubs and a ventilator took part in this materialistic orgy. For the finale a bland, fat-faced Mexican sun descended to blot out the noxious stock ticker, a sun whose face bore a flattering likeness to Painter Rivera's. For this triumphant scene the noisy music was at its noisiest-hard, galvanic, rasping-as if Composer Chavez were trying to make up for having allowed his tropical dancers a comparatively pleasant...
...each for "killing a fish" with weapons other than hook & line. Last week Ethelbert was only a skeleton and a memory, but the Lessards were still trying to escape payment of their $400 fines. With one stroke Circuit Judge Hall S. Lusk, to whom they appealed, erased the blot from Ethelbert's escutcheon, wiped out the Lessard fines. Like almost everybody else, he knew, and explained to the jury in directing an acquittal, that a whale, which breathes air and suckles its young, is no fish...