Word: blotted
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...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 Since the Painlevé Cabinet superseded that of M. Herriot (TIME, Apr. 27) he has fought a stubborn but losing battle to balance the French budget without resorting to inflation or a levy upon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...
...Treasury in charge of Prohibition enforcement, announced a new list of 24 Prohibition Administratoras and not one was $50,000 a year man, not to mention any higher figure. The public had almost been led to believe that a great drive under General Andrews beginning Sept. 1 to blot intoxicants from off the map of the U. S. was to be offered by business men, six-figure men. In this detail, at least, the drive...
...blot on the State and a disgrace to the good people thereof...