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...policemen are as genteel as tall, bland Thomas Wentworth Russell, whose family (the Dukes of Bedford) have been potent in British politics almost continuously since Henry VIII. Few policemen are as magnificent, for his white dress tunic with its glittering scimitar is splattered with stars and medals. Few policemen are busier, for Thomas Wentworth Russell is not only Chief of Cairo's police, but spends much of his time as Director of the Narcotics Intelligence Bureau of Egypt, a position equivalent to that of world's chief narcotic sleuth. Because of his intense campaign to shut...
...John Oliver McReynolds, a Dallas eye man, had Dr. Agramonte's place as Congress president. During the week he became president of the Pan-American Medical Association, succeeding Havana's bland, simpatico Dr. Francisco Maria Fernandez. Ophthalmologist McReynolds' presidency made Dallas doubly proud. His rival for the glory of being Dallas' most prominent eye doctor is Dr. Edward Henry Gary, currently in the public eye as president of the American Medical Association...
...lunch and for dinner, and for a demitasse. There is a very poor movie in all the theatres in town; there is very poor rhum in every bottle in Cambridge; there is a most strident and complaining voice through every fire door in the college. There is the same bland look of innocence on every Freshman's face and the same suave cynicism on every Sophomore's. The bell in Sever rings louder and more frequently. There is no discharge in the war. It is the baleful season. It is Harvard. It is life. It is April Hours...
Professor Frankfurter will join a remarkably white company. Jane Adams, who was vulgar enough to feed starving immigrants and to educate them, achieved disrepute with the feminine Torquemadas, as did Mary Woolley and John Haynes Holmes. None of these disagreeable people believed in the bland assumption that all that is, is right...
...order thus to invade territory which even Japan calls "China" without quibbling would come from the Tokumei Zenken Taishi, the "Emperor's Private Ambassador" in Manchukuo, His Excellency General Nobuyoshi Muto, bland, august and grim. In a most ominous proclamation this week, the Tokumei Zenken Taishi declared: "Should the Chinese undertake operations against our troops [as Chinese had already done] the hostilities may inevitably spread to North China, responsibility for which must be borne by the Chinese authorities...