Word: blemishes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Society does not stand alone in deploring the 18th amendment as a "blemish" on the constitution. Its subject matter is not a matter of political principle or organization such as truly befits a constitutional provision, but rather meet concern for a police regulation. And certainly the publicity of drunkenness has increased to proportions which do not alarm the alarmists and That, however, a speedy replacement of the amendment itself and state laws similarly stringent, is really called for, constitutes another matter, constitutes in fact a problem which all the wisdom of the nation is needed to solve...
...intellectual blue-blood within, experienced the acute pain of a wolf trapped by the foot. It sought relief from its dilemma in an agonized editorial admitting that it was staggered by "a deep-rooted disorder in modern civilization." The public interest in the Brownings, it thought, was "no superficial blemish" but a phenomenon of vicarious sensual indulgence to which the nearest analogies were the Roman circus and the Spanish bullring. Yet "frank animalism" was lacking. "The combination between the courts and the tabloids," raged the World, "has produced a situation for which there really is no precedent. . . . There...
Naturally the German press blazed wrath. Cried the Tagliche Rundschau, organ of Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann: "This infamous blemish on French justice in the occupied Rhineland is a blow with the fist in the face of the German people...
...call to decide for your city between John F. Hylan, clean and honest servant of your interest and yours alone, whose record of deeds contains no blemish, and "Little Jimmie Walker, slick and pliant politician, Broadway butterfly; advocate in public of mothers' pensions and paid in private for easing the sale of putrid and dis- eased meat to those mothers...
Like any hotblooded individual, the sun is subject to periodic eruptions of the countenance. Last week, growing steadily, almost visible to the naked eye, a vast blemish appeared on the eastern solar cheek, a disfiguration 50,000 or 60,000 mi. across, caused by some disarrangement of the internal molten solar humors. Dr. David Todd of Amherst College, in reporting the spot to laity, reminded them to look next for displays of the aurora borealis. Just what influence the sun exerts-whether cathode rays, Hertzian waves or negatively charged particles-to cause "the dance of the dead men," the "merry...