Word: blande
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ample, easy shrug of the Frenchman, and his bland smile suggested that an understanding had been reached behind the scenes. Meanwhile an even closer rapprochement was unquestionably being achieved by Dr. Stresemann with genial, beefy "Uncle Arthur" Henderson, British Foreign Secretary...
Sleek Frenchmen, great-throated Germans, hearty Englishmen, voluble Belgians, blond Swedes, good-natured Austrians, ill-tailored Czechs, pompous Italians, hungry Letts, solid Dutchmen, bland Danes, swarthy Poles, incomprehensible Lithuanians, dour Spaniards, excitable Serbs, fish-eating Finns, bony Norwegians, polyglot Swiss, egregious Estonians and 100% Americans-all these to the number of 4,000 assembled last week in Berlin. Greatest of them all were the Americans, 1,000 in number. They were most plentiful because they considered themselves and are considered the world's foremost exponents of the meeting's subject-advertising...
There had been a parade of wounded veterans in protest against debt ratification. The police had tried to stop the parade. In the Chamber, Deputy Maurice Dormann, representing the veterans, rose to make Minister of the Interior André Tardieu admit that during the parade, the bland face of Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe had been twice slapped by an outraged woman. Minister Tardieu assured the honorable deputy that the face of M. Chiappe had not so been slapped. Veteran Dormann declared he had seen it with his own eyes. He suddenly shouted: "As a Deputy, as a war veteran...
Standing in the garden of the presidential palace at Lima are U. S. Ambassador Alexander Pollock Moore, widower of famed Lillian Russell; short-legged President Augusto Leguia of Peru; bland Ambassador Emiliano Figueroa-Larrain of Chile...
Tory speakers, depressed by this possibility, last week devoted as much time to the agile Welshman as to their Socialist opponents. Bland, moonfaced Winston Churchill, Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer, whose modest suggestion of a fourpenny (8?) reduction in the tax on tea has been received by the electorate as very cold pie indeed compared to the Liberal mouth-watering promises of Lloyd George, was particularly bitter...