Word: blandings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...easily understood by women but women will always be a mystery to man." Conspicuous exceptions to all these generalities immediately pop into our minds as we read them in cold print. And yet we can get them off with a perfectly straight face, and conviction in our tones. This bland positiveness bears out the suggestion of a recent alumna that college, whatever it may teach us, is very apt to deprive us of our sense of humor and our ability to see things in their proper proportions and relationships...
...James Ramsay MacDonald and his daughter Ishbel were first to arrive, followed by hordes of British socialites. The best-dressed gentlemen and worst-dressed ladies in the world gathered in the galleries, talked very loudly, paid but scant attention to the pictures. Less notable people, among whom was a bland Chinaman with a topper and a green orchid, found a few exhibits to interest them...
...intention of the Robert Gair Co. to merge with the Container Corp. of America or to participate in the formation of a holding company with this or any other corporation. The bland hints as to the fatalistic attractions of this "splendid couple" are significant of absolutely nothing more than that the old "matchmakers" of Wall Street are again tickling public susceptibilities with romance...
...were flops." He has also written 120 Million. He is on the board of the New Playwrights' Theatre supported by Capitalist Otto H. Kahn. Last February the New Playwrights gave a dinner, invited Maecenas Kahn, made many speeches attacking capitalism, prophesying the triumph of the workers. Banker Kahn, bland, smiling, replied in the best speech of the evening. Intimated he: I give my money gladly to artistic experiments, am willing to take a chance on thereby upsetting the social order...
Following this the Choral Society will sing two songs from Shakespeare--"Full Fathom Five" by John Ireland and "It was a Lover and His Lass" by H. Vaughan Williams; "Cherry Stones" by the Marquis of Bland ford; and "Follow Me Down to Carlow", an Irish folk song...