Word: blandings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Plan. "The railways as a whole are in serious difficulty," declared Governor Roosevelt in his bland, cultured voice. "Our job is neither to howl about a calamity nor to gloss over the trouble. There is no danger of the railroads going out of business. Why, then, the difficulty...
...shut-mouthed Senator, he rarely speaks on the floor. His words are tame, uninspiring. Though he is fairly attentive to debate, his colleagues are inclined to regard him as lazy in the chamber and committee. He is short, plump, with a round, bland face. His clothes are in quiet good taste. A Roman Catholic, he does not chum with other Southern Democrats, lives quietly in his Washington home on Mintwood Place...
...critic. The Russian Revolution lured him to Petrograd, made him editor of the Russian Daily News, then drove him out of the country. Until critics began to hail his spare-time writing, Author Komroff survived by hack-writing for women's-wear and movie magazines. Bland, sensible, he says: "The best authors are those that are dead...
...John Allsebrook Simon is tall, bland, very British. The breadth of his shoulders is accentuated by a neck long yet not too long. Smooth and pink, the face of his Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs takes on at will an innocent, babyish expression, flashes his "lightning smile" or congeals into withering hauteur. Throughout the Empire "John," as his few intimates call him, is famed as Britain's most highly remunerated barrister. Slow in walk and gesture he is lightning quick of mind and he is tireless. Last week he became Chairman of the League of Nations...
Right & Wrong? Amid the angry murmurs of Conservative M. P.'s, bland Labor M. P. Sir Richard Stafford Cripps, onetime Solicitor General, rose and gave his learned opinion that the Free State has the right to abolish the oath its Deputies and Senators swear to His Majesty, this right resting squarely on the Statute of Westminister passed by the London Parliament (TIME, Dec. 7). Conservative Winston Churchill agreed...