Word: blanding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...anxious throngs who crowded into Mexico City's Palacio Nacional this week, bland President Manuel Avila Camacho displayed a two-inch swath burned in the jacket of his grey-and-red striped suit, a similar powder burn in his white shirt beneath. The burns were over his heart...
...University of Chicago, where he teaches in the Law School, Professor Mortimer J. Adler is known to older and possibly somewhat envious teachers as the "professor of the blue sky." An intellectually wily, bland, brash and confident man, he has married scholarship to intellectual impertinence with amusing and sometimes instructive results. His chief conviction is that if one knows how to think, one can think about anything. Four years ago Professor Adler was busy telling the U.S. public the "rules" of reading in a best-seller (TIME, March 18, 1940) which he gaily titled How to Read a Book...
...Alexis McClure's P&PW (Publicity and Psychological Warfare Division). Infantry-trained General McClure learned a lot about how to run his outfit (and how not to) in the Africa and Sicily invasions. He is well liked, tries to meet newsmen's requirements. His chief deputy is bland, balding British Brigadier William A. S. Turner, formerly War Office public-relations director...
...Timers continued to grind out novels in 1943. John P. Marquand published So Little Time ($2.75), a sad, bland tale of a polished but warm-hearted literary hack whose success cost him his self-respect. Upton Sinclair's Wide Is the Gate ($3), his 63rd book, carried his almost legendary Lanny Budd through the corrupt vicissitudes of Europe between wars. Sinclair Lewis' Gideon Planish ($2.50), a withering blast at phony philanthropists and do-gooders, awoke pale memories of Elmer Gantry. With The Forest and the Fort ($2.50), Anthony Adverse's Hervey Allen hewed...
...Bland Explanation. Meantime Reuters gave a bland and cynical explanation for its beat: that its Lisbon office, technically not bound by any Allied restrictions, had merely demonstrated "spontaneous journalistic enterprise." This seemed to be adding insult to injury. Perhaps U.S. news services would take the cue and instruct their Lisbon and other offices to show a little "spontaneous American enterprise" hereafter...