Word: blanded
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...romantics, Laurence Olivier (who resembles Ronald Colman and snarls like Clark Gable) and Valerie Hobson (who looks and loves like Loretta Young) pout and make up in proper Hollywood style. But the show-stealing star of Clouds over Europe is bland, slightly-potty, all-round Actor Ralph Richardson (Things to Come, The Divorce of Lady X, The Citadel...
...night last March in San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel, a whiskey bottle cracked the red head of a beauty named Helen De Vine, whose mother runs a duck hatchery. Miss De Vine told police that her bland, baby-faced boyfriend, Mark Lee Megladdery, and one Samuel J. Hume were tippling with her when Hume swung at Megladdery and Miss De Vine forgot to duck...
Last week that policy was made public. Having promised the Jews a "homeland" and the Arabs an independent State in Palestine, the British in a White Paper as bland as Lord Runciman's apologia for the Czecho-Slovakia debacle, chose to interpret this to mean that the Jews should have about as much "homeland" as they have now achieved in Palestine, but that they should not be allowed to expand to a point of depriving the Arabs of their majority control in politics and land ownership. Jews fumed and charged that once more Great Britain had expediently bowed...
...hills, to rough the edge of the bland...
From Homer on, hardly a serious poet has been without a guardian conscience which he called his Muse. To the Greek poets, the Muses were goddesses who led a life apart from the bullheaded and goatish gods but were, like them, bland absentees. After paganism, when Christianity started trying to hatch out a more personal and better world, the Muse turned from goddess to angel-like Dante's Beatrice, who spoke to him from heaven. But with the Renaissance, poets found their angels nearer home and less angelic: in Elizabethan times, on the streets and in the Court...