Word: bland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rest of the band includes Mezz Mezzrow (clarinet), Jack Bland (guitar), George Lugg (trombone), and of course Hodes at the keys. It is interesting to note that all are veteran Chicagoans of the old school (Mezzrow, who was the original ringleader of that crowd, is now pressing 44 but still plays that highly controversial clarinet as agilely as he did 20 years...
Into this situation came the third U.S. Food Administrator in four months - Judge Marvin Jones, smooth, bland, quiet ex-Congressman from Texas, who left the bench six months ago to aid Czar of Czars Jimmy Byrnes. He took time out to preside over the international food conference at Hot Springs, Va. (TIME, June 14). Jones apparently will have not one jot or tittle more power than Chester Davis...
...film makes a good technical try for pace, but never really achieves it Russell's and MacMurray's thanks-for-the-memory love junket is as bland as anything the Hays office has swallowed in recent months. But mainly the picture is as uneven as a war-torn corduroy road. Once, its taste graph dips so low as to show a group of flyers in a back room saluting Rosalind Russell with song...
...cite the fact that many men ask for baptism, confirmation, some talk about entering the ministry after the war. But by & large the men's attitude tends toward the cagey. Many of them preface their questions apologetically: "Without disrespect to the Church. . . ." Says the Ministry of Information, with bland British understatement: "There is extremely little real hostility to the Church. The commonest attitude might be accurately described as disappointment or impatience...
...Nichevo is a bland answer to anything. How are you getting along? O.K. (Nichevo). What's cooking? Nothing. (Nichevo}. It can also mean "Every thing's fine," and "What does it matter?" It is not a definite negative or a definite affirmative...