Word: blande
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After five days of this wanton decapitation General Li Pao-chang posted up a bland proclamation: "I am touched by the numerous executions by my subordinates. They were prompted thereto by my orders to execute on the spot, without question and without trial. This order I now rescind...
...contributing more to the man power of the nation than any other citizen" was introduced to the President by Representative Warren of North Carolina. His name is Reuben Bland; he is 72, healthy, twice-married and the father of 34 children. Said President Coolidge: "You ought to be thankful for all your blessings...
...great handbook of statesmanly dissimulation, has been studied long and passionately by Benito Mussolini-on his own confession. Last week II Duce explained to U. S. newsgatherers why he has suppressed the liberty of Italian newsorgans. Weasel words fell from his lips, not sullenly, not haltingly, but with bland, urbane facility...
...Their bland and persistent indifference to civil authority has given them, for 400 years, a checkered career. But they have always been good farmers, and many governments have made them, at least for a time, special concessions. Holland has always treated them well; there are 60,000 there. The German Mennonites fared less happily; many emigrated in 1786 to Russia, by invitation of Catherine II, who granted military exemption. This grant having been rescinded in 1870, large numbers of the faithful came to the U. S. (where a Germantown, Pa., colony existed as early as 1683), spread to Nebraska...
...ROMANTIC COMEDIANS?Ellen Glasgow?Doubleday, Page ($2.50). Judge Gamaliel Bland Honeywell?note his middle name? was jilted in the heat of his Southern-Victorian youth by queenly Amanda Lightfoot. On the rebound he married a dovelike Cordelia whose solicitude for his digestion during their 36 years together far surpassed her sublimation of his romantic tendencies?or, dare we say, his passions. They had no children. She modestly discouraged his tenderest husbanding. Hence it was not surprising that Gamaliel, at chivalric 65, caught himself thinking, as he laid his fifty-second weekly wreath on Cordelia's grave, of other women?...