Word: bland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nevertheless, shoulder-slapping, grips and the password, "Howdy, Pap!" were not entirely laid aside before the Mooses sat down to discuss their concrete program. The word "pap" does not connote, to Mooses, a bland sort of mush or gruel fed to infants. When Moose greets Moose he merely pronounces the initials of "Purity, Aid, Progress." There was, of course, a gorgeous parade, which rain could not discourage, through streets which the Philadelphia Moose lodge (the largest, with 30,000 members) had spent some $35,000 to decorate becomingly with moose statues on pedestals, an arch of loyalty, flags, bunting...
...suddenly at a Cabinet meeting and demand the resignation of Premier Averescu. The order was obeyed. General Averescu picked up a sheet of notepaper from the table before him, dipped pen in ink, wrote out and signed his resignation. His startled ministers did likewise. Then came the real bombshell. Bland, the royal emissary announced that His Majesty had called to the Premiership Prince Babu Stirbey...
Secretary Amery, brusque, direct, arch-imperialist, uttered on this occasion bland words: "I deal in this office with 36 different governments, each entirely separate from the rest, each administratively, financially and legislatively self-contained. The whole system with its haphazard complexity and lack of coordination of any structural basis would not for a moment, I fancy, be tolerated by any of our more logical neighbors across the Channel. For all that I believe our system, or lack of system, has certain great advantages. It would be a profound mistake to scrap the essentially local and individual basis of our system...
Since all major business of the Conference will be transacted in innumerable sub-committee rooms, the huge public session of last week wore on amid intentionally bromidic set speeches. Even so, U. S. Chief Delegate Henry M. Robinson managed to fall afoul of bland Sir Max Muspratt, President of the British Delegation, and, in business life, president of the immensely potent and monopolistic Federation of British Industries. Naturally, rubber was the elastic bone of the Robinson-Muspratt contention, for the British rubber monopoly (TIME, Jan. 18, 1926) has forced U. S. citizens to pay dear for tires, hot-water bottles...
...Harvard Professor may soon be lecturing with amplifiers from his Morris Chair, or even while sunning himself with ex-Mayor Hylan on the Palm Beach sands. Fluency might be enhanced by a little Prince Albert in a Briar Pipe and by evading the facing of dreary rows of bland, apathetic faces. If the Professor be indisposed, each student may put on the record marked Hypnosis--Extra Deep--and have his roommate follow it with English 13 for Deep Sleepers--etc. The possibilities are obviously limitless...