Word: bland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...placed Japan's 350,000 Christians on an equal footing with its 41,000,000 Buddhists and 16,000,000 Shintoists, put all religions under the supervision of the Education Department, provided for the suppression of any sect which deviated from Japanese national policy. The Government, full of bland promises as usual, assured anxious Christians that no "Japanifying" of Christianity was intended. But Tokyo's July spy sensation, when seven Japanese Salvation Army chiefs were among those arrested, gave the Government an excuse to change its mind, declare that Christian activities, like every other phase of Japanese life...
...last five years, bushy, bespectacled Showman David Oliver Selznick and bland, bespectacled Socialite John Hay ("Jock") Whitney have been partners. Their firm: Selznick International Pictures, Inc. When Whitney invaded an industry long monopolized by a small clique of specialists, Hollywood veterans smirked, knowingly predicted he would singe his finger tips. But Whitney stuck to his desk as SI's chairman, this year laughed last as S-I brought out two of the season's most profitable films-Gone With the Wind and Rebecca...
WODEHOUSE ON GOLF - P. G. Wodehouse - Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Last week Author Wodehouse, captured by the Germans, was reported still at Le Touquet. In this collection of reprints, some dating from 1910, Wodehouse's bland, bumbling golfers hook, slice and burble their way through 844 pages of fairway, rough and green...
...Milch's military colleagues like him. He is more a business go-getter than a military man of the German pattern. Instead of sternness he has a bland, baby-faced smoothness. Some super-Nazis still view with suspicion his birth, despite his mother's affidavit that he was illegitimate. Her husband, who gave the child his name, was a Jew. But Hitler likes and trusts him highly, gave him a gold Nazi Party pin (great favor...
...genius upon certain individuals-a secretary of Goethe, young Arthur Schopenhauer's hysterical bluestocking sister, Goethe's tortured, psychically castrated, piteous son-and its equally unpleasant effects upon a whole household and community. The exquisite, shriveling protocols of the formal luncheon are established with a finality, a bland cruelty, at which Marcel Proust might gasp...