Search Details

Word: blandest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Japanese. Army jerking the strings, last week hurled fast-moving military detachments into Inner Mongolia and seized its capital, Pailingmiao. Apparently this was done with the bribe-bought co-operation of one of the last Celestials to wear the ancient Chinese pigtail, famed Prince Te. His Highness is the blandest foe of Soviet Russian influence, in Inner and Outer Mongolia. In effect the seizure of Pailingmiao, jabbed the Japanese spearhead 200 miles nearer to an ultimate clash with the Red Army of Joseph Stalin for the mastery of Eastern Asia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Out & Ins | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

...National Gallery and Surveyor of the King's Pictures. The King's collection is far & away the biggest and finest collection of Leonardo drawings now known to man. In his first volume of notes, Cataloger Clark makes it tell much of great Leonardo, one of the brightest, blandest and most mysterious men who ever lived. The second volume is given over to 614 Leonardo drawings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: King's Treasures | 6/10/1935 | See Source »

...between midnight and nine o'clock through a slot in a side door of the building. Both these reforms, coming in the prime of the academic year, call to mind once more the disheartening state of affairs in the main library of the University, and suggest to even the blandest observer a number of desirable changes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WIDENER | 10/14/1933 | See Source »

Pray tell him with your blandest smile...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON BREAKFAST. | 2/6/1880 | See Source »

...about leaving with these volumes under my arm, when the boy approached, and said, with the blandest of patronizing smiles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BALZAC OR THE BIBLE? | 4/1/1879 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |