Word: blanded
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...approached noiselessly from the rear. Eyewitnesses saw only a flash of steel, a gush of blood. Quick as a snake's tongue the hatchet had slipped out of the Privy Councilor's voluminous silk sleeve, split Li's head and vanished into the sleeve again. Grave, bland and without a bloodstain showing, Privy Councilor Chen strolled out of the hotel past Japanese police too flabbergasted to arrest...
Silk-robed mandarins with ornate shoes turned up at the toes hailed the bland, plump youth as Emperor of Annam, the "Absolute Master and Father and Mother." In the mountain of royal baggage, unseen by Annamites, were 7,000 phonograph records, a French-English-Italian library, ten ping-pong sets and a hundred dozen ping-pong balls. Not for nothing has 19-year-old Emperor Bao Dai spent half his life in Paris, coached by Frenchmen to rule Annam as France directs. On his return to Hue the perfectly drilled Emperor replied in rapid, flawless French to greetings voiced...
Arms Parley. Bland, tenacious German Foreign Minister Baron Constantin von Neurath arrived in Geneva for the League Council meeting last week, but not to attend the continuing committee of the Geneva Armament Conference...
...Plan. "The railways as a whole are in serious difficulty," declared Governor Roosevelt in his bland, cultured voice. "Our job is neither to howl about a calamity nor to gloss over the trouble. There is no danger of the railroads going out of business. Why, then, the difficulty...
...shut-mouthed Senator, he rarely speaks on the floor. His words are tame, uninspiring. Though he is fairly attentive to debate, his colleagues are inclined to regard him as lazy in the chamber and committee. He is short, plump, with a round, bland face. His clothes are in quiet good taste. A Roman Catholic, he does not chum with other Southern Democrats, lives quietly in his Washington home on Mintwood Place...