Word: blandings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...negligible, whose contact with individual patients has been minimal for several years, and whose time is devoted to committees, journalism, and publicity for themselves and their institutions . . . Within the various schools of psychiatry we have much mutual backslapping and back-scratching in spite of intense personal rivalry, while a bland and successful façade is presented to the outside world...
...Dawes, General Pershing's chief purchasing agent in World War I, earned his nickname when a 1921 congressional committee was investigating war expenditures. Asked Indiana's Representative Bland: "Is it not true that excessive prices were paid for mules?" Roared Dawes: "Hell 'n' Maria! I would have paid horse prices for sheep if the sheep could have pulled artillery to the front!" * Hughes wore no eyepatch until about five years ago (see cut), is reluctant to discuss it because of Christian Science attitudes toward injury and disease. He credits Christian Science with curing an illness that...
...spell out one of the saddest stories in literature. Few Americans read King Lear, and fewer still would read it if it existed only in Scholar Kittredge's famous notes. Middleton Murry's book is of that scholarly kind. Yet, readers who do not insist on a bland diet of print will be well rewarded by this study of a man of tragic genius...
...Downing Bland Jenks, 40, moved up from executive vice president to president of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad (14th largest), succeeding John Dow Farrington, who continues as chief executive officer in the new position of board chairman. Yaleman ('37) Jenks helped operate military railroads in Africa, Italy and Germany in World War II, was general manager of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois before Farrington brought him to the Rock Island...
Iran's Premier Hussein Ala arrived patched with adhesive tape where the revolver, hurled by a frustrated assassin, had nicked his head a fortnight ago. With Macmillan came Britain's chief military man, General Sir Gerald Templer. Turkey's bland Premier Adnan Menderes arrived last, as befitted the nation with METO's biggest army. Representing the U.S. as "observer" and backstage sponsor was U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Waldemar J. Gallman and Admiral John H. Cassady, commander of all U.S. naval forces in the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean...