Word: bland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scythia (Cunard)-Sir John Bland-Sutton, President of The Royal College of Surgeons, London; Hon. Roscoe Pound, Dean of Harvard Law School...
...order that he might have visions of the wealth which her face represented, a miser once married a woman whose profile duplicated one he had seen on a coin. The tale is told by O. Henry. Since the Bland-Allison Act of 1878, more than 770,000,000 silver dollars*; have been minted. They have been admired for the beautiful head they bore. According to the designer, George Morgan, it was a portrait of the most perfect head he had ever seen. Whose? That of a Philadelphia schoolmistress, who never married-Miss Anna W. Williams. She resigned last week after...
...Bland-Allison dollar was replaced in 1922 by a dollar of new design...
Other Olympic items: ¶ A bland announcement from an Italian official that Italy will take third place in the games. "Naturally we do not expect to beat America," he said. He did not say who he expected would be second...
...more than just that these Croesusos should pay for the trade which the Volstead Act throws their way. But if they were less short sighted and would open their hearts to Mucha's benign example, tax collectors might be more leniently disposed and the public might cast a bland smile upon them. For everyone loves a cheerful public spirited giver, even though he rob Peter to pay Paul