Word: blandings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carloads to Italy last week, Czechoslovaks eased their pricking consciences by officially designating each of the 300 carloads of coal as a "sample." Why they should send samples to a nation to which they do not expect to sell more coal was a question Czechoslovaks answered with bland shrugs...
FROM THE KINGDOM OF NECESSITY- Isidor Schneider-Putnam ($2.50). Autobiographical novel of Jewish life on New York's East Side, packed with warm characterizations and bland anecdotes, by a well-known U. S. poet...
...little child that shall lead them. But the infant, vest-pocket edition though he was, knew a good man when he saw it. As the first Dunsterman strolled past the obscure pair, the child looked up ever so brightly and said, "Hello, papa!" Somewhat startled at this bland impeachment, the gentleman hurried on, only to hear the challenging greeting flung at the student behind him. Still smiling, the child indicted each Dunsterman in turn with the same words until all had passed and were hurrying across the street, apparently at a rate sufficient to keep their past from, catching...
...loan from the West to the Nanking Government of harassed, high-strung little Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Last week Japanese officials were nervous as cats lest such a loan result from the visit to China of the Paitish Treasury's biggest mobile gun, Sir Frederick Leith-Ross. bland Chief Economic Adviser to His Majesty's Exchequer, who is steaming this week toward the Far East...
During hot debate in both Houses, such foes of the act as Winston Churchill charged that His Majesty's Government put "disgraceful pressure" upon India's princes, "amounting to blackmail in some cases," to force their agreement. Nevertheless the bill was steamrollered through by bland Secretary for India Sir Samuel Hoare, just before his promotion to be Foreign Secretary (TIME, June...