Word: blotted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cover is appropriate and wholly admirable (although not the equal of the George Washington picture of last spring) and shows Lampy acknowledging the greetings of the world upon the occasion of his fiftieth birthday. A cake illuminated by fifty (count them) candles stands appropriately in the foreground and the Blot peers hungrily from an upper window...
...that the Senate has done such a thing will ever be the blackest blot our great nation has ever known. And what is still a greater sin is that any man would try to hide and excuse his own mistakes by laying them at the door of another man. . . . But both have gone before a higher Judge than man and each will receive his just dues. And I am in hopes Mr. Lodge repented his harsh views before he was called to meet his God. For otherwise I fear that his chances of happiness will be very slim...
...late, ever lowering storm clouds have threatened to blot out M. Joseph Caillaux as Finance Minister of France. Since the Painlevé Cabinet superseded that of M. Herriot (TIME, Apr. 27) he has fought a stubborn but losing battle to balance the French budget without resorting to inflation or a levy upon capital (TIME, May 25), and failed in his attempts to devise a scheme for paying off the country's debts...
...General Wood affirms, this situation is the one black blot on American prestige in the Orient . . . stories of little girls confined in chicken coops because they would not accede to the demands of their masters; stories of girls traded to Chinamen for pigs...
...blot on the State and a disgrace to the good people thereof...