Word: blanded
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...little child that shall lead them. But the infant, vest-pocket edition though he was, knew a good man when he saw it. As the first Dunsterman strolled past the obscure pair, the child looked up ever so brightly and said, "Hello, papa!" Somewhat startled at this bland impeachment, the gentleman hurried on, only to hear the challenging greeting flung at the student behind him. Still smiling, the child indicted each Dunsterman in turn with the same words until all had passed and were hurrying across the street, apparently at a rate sufficient to keep their past from, catching...
...loan from the West to the Nanking Government of harassed, high-strung little Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Last week Japanese officials were nervous as cats lest such a loan result from the visit to China of the Paitish Treasury's biggest mobile gun, Sir Frederick Leith-Ross. bland Chief Economic Adviser to His Majesty's Exchequer, who is steaming this week toward the Far East...
During hot debate in both Houses, such foes of the act as Winston Churchill charged that His Majesty's Government put "disgraceful pressure" upon India's princes, "amounting to blackmail in some cases," to force their agreement. Nevertheless the bill was steamrollered through by bland Secretary for India Sir Samuel Hoare, just before his promotion to be Foreign Secretary (TIME, June...
...came in the sixth. Bland, graceful, incorrigibly calm, Louis stalked Carnera across the ring, drove a right to his jaw. Carnera fell, dragged himself up, crashed down again, with another right to the jaw. Louis, an amazingly motionless figure, outlined against the ring lights, leaned on the ropes for a moment. When Carnera was on his feet again, Louis moved in, landed a crashing left. As Carnera got up for the third time, he had just presence of mind enough left to turn toward the referee before Louis had time to hit him again. Referee Arthur Donovan stepped between...
...have been assessed and were paying up last week, as Tsar Schacht brusquely demanded that 100,000,000 marks be collected by June 15. Efforts to draw from the Ministry of Economics some explanation of how the $400,000,000. fund will revolve were met by bland assertions that it is covered by no law and hence must be considered an unofficial German movement of economic selfhelp. This explanation, German officials seemed to hope, may protect their Government from foreign charges that Germany has resorted to dumping as a weapon of national policy. So far as could be learned...