Word: bland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...complete impersonality. Perhaps a leading reason why the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co. is so often accused of completely illogical and ridiculous things?such as starting panics and thereby depreciating its own securities and properties?is the contrast which this building affords to its neighbors and its generally bland, inscrutable and complete impersonality...
...bicycle craze. Princess dresses ? monkey-dinners at Newport ? What's Wrong With Our Colleges? (that hardy perennial)?McKinley? the Bland-Allison Act?Battles and Leaders of the Civil War?Cartoons of Nicholas II and Wilhelm II? Joseph Chamberlain?Franz Josef? how odd they look...
...their rights in Turkey under the terms of the capitulation treaties. They are, however, willing to exchange these rights against guarantees in the new treaty, which, it is hoped, will result from the present conference. The Turks, with their usual barefaced equanimity, have met the Allied demands with the bland remark : " There are no capitulations; we abolished them in 1914. You have, therefore, nothing to exchange." The upshot of the matter is that the treaty was sent back to the experts for study and is not likely to come up again for general discussion until the results of a conference...
Interdormitory Relay Race.--Won by Gore (T. R. Hull, L. M. Harris, D. L. Ellovitch, L. L. Robb); second, Smith (W. B. Thomas, B. C. Bland, M. L. Stout, D. B. Wilson); third, Standish (W. M. Austin, G. E. Kent, C. C. Nast, S. E. Toulmin...
...very celestial republic are, even among the well informed, extraordinarily diverse. One has only to read two such books as "The Fight for the Republic in China" by B. L. Putman Weale (pen name of Bortram Lenox-Simpson) and "China, Japan, and Korea" by J. O. P. Bland to learn how doctors disagree over this enfeebled and turbulent patient. No one can reasonably expect all her ills to be cured at this Conference; but there is good reason for expecting something to be done to alleviate them and even more to minimize the danger which they are to peace...