Word: blandes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...made a dramatic contrast. The Emperor was young (then 32), plump, clean-shaven, bland-faced, fond of snappy Western sport clothes. Ho was aging (55), slight (hardly 5 ft. tall), goat-bearded, steelyeyed, usually seen in a frayed khaki tunic and cloth slippers. Ho Chi Minh, too, had gone to France for education. As a young man, he had been sent into exile by the French police of Indo-China because of his family's nationalist agitation. His father and a brother went to political prison for life. A sister received nine years of hard labor...
...Costello was not the only big shot who pooh-poohed the idea that bookies could be reached by law. The committee heard the same line from St. Louis' bland, bankerish James J. Carroll, the Mr. Big of betting, who announces winter book odds on the Kentucky Derby, and "lays off" (in effect, reinsures) all kinds of bets with gamblers across the nation. When he was asked what a bookie needed to operate, beyond the racing wire, he answered with one word: "Money...
Washington saw only the bland mask of racketeering. Its real face could be seen better last week in Kansas City, capital of the political machine that sent Harry Truman to Washington in 1934 as U.S. Senator...
...Shulman has written another book. This bland statement of fact may leave the reader in any one of three states of mind. For the reader may have read and laughed hysterically at Shulman's first three books; he may have read them and laughed hardly at all; or he may never have heard of this midwestern humorist...
...Florida booms, hip flasks, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the Charleston, and the out-of-sight spiral of a rocketing stock market. Its faces range from the ludicrous (Calvin Coolidge in an Indian war bonnet) to the complacent (Jimmy Walker in a ticker-tape parade) to the evil (the pudgy, bland-eyed look of a paretic Al Capone...