Word: bland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Students at New York's City College have become accustomed to discovering that their pompous college officials have feet of clay. Four years ago they tittered when their president, bland Dr. Frederick B. Robinson, wrote an article for Bernarr Macfadden's sensational True Story Magazine. Last week City College's students caught another member of the administration in an embarrassing position...
...afternoon last week Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau sat in bland conclave with the Press. Deluged with questions about how the U. S. dollar and U. S. economy were faring in the worst war scare since 1914, he finally remarked: "I think we are proving to the world that the U. S. is the financial centre of the world and we can resist the kind of nervousness which people who have money are feeling at this time...
...decades the London Times, famed "Thunderer," was understood to speak for His Majesty's Government in times of crisis when they preferred not to speak for themselves. Europe was therefore gravely alarmed last week when the Times suggested in a bland editorial that perhaps the Sudeten German territory of Czechoslovakia had best simply be permitted to secede and merge with Germany...
...replied," continued bland Lord Halifax, " 'That is exactly the position...
...Tall, bland Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon drew gasps from startled M. P.s by disclosing that as much as 150,000 tons of wheat have been bought by the Government in a single day, plus correspondingly gigantic purchases of sugar and whale oil. (The British lower classes can subsist indefinitely on bread and margarine-in which whale oil is a key ingredient.) What Sir John was really doing, as he "opened" the Budget last week, was unlocking the State secret that His Majesty's Government have craftily completed the first step necessary to prepare the Empire against...