Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because you, your looks, your interests, etc., are so utterly blank to me I feel as if I might be attempting to converse with someone thro' an iron wall--or supin'--anyhow--fell all at sea--if you see "as what I mean...
...instances which doubtless provided the last straw for Uncle Arthur were the point-blank refusals of Japan, Italy, and Hungary to join hands in the ring of happy nations playing the fascinating game of arms control. Japan made herself very clear in avoiding any arrangement by which she would be hampered in her Eastern marauding; Hungary felt safe in following the lead of Mussolini in taking the position of an "interested observer" of the proceedings. MacDonald of England would, apparently, like to withdraw also but does not dare, the peace pressure being as strong as it is at home. This...
...deputy to General Johnson. General Johnson personally takes over the fifth department: Compliance. Structure of the Compliance Board is based on 26 district officers of the Department of Commerce. Anyone who has a complaint to make against a code violator may go to his post office, procure a blank, file the charge with the district compliance officer. If he cannot settle the case it goes to a Divisional Administrator. If he cannot settle the case it goes to the National Compliance Board. If it cannot settle the case it goes to General Johnson, who can turn it over for prosecution...
...live?" Invariably the answer, "Oh, I live right here in the Union," is followed either by a look of annoyance and the words, "Come on, I don't mean where are you right at this moment but where is your room? Don't be funny," or by a blank and amazed stare and "I didn't know there were rooms here," spoken in such a tone that it is not difficult to see what the speaker is imagining, either some bleak little hole-in-the-wall tucked away behind the kitchens or a dim alcove in a dingy attic...
...Britain and France were looking at Otto as at least a possible last resort to stop the spread of Nazism southward from Germany. What, King Victor Emanuel asked, of that potent little Nazi-stopper, Austria's Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss who emerged nearly intact last fortnight from a point-blank meeting with an assassin? Zita produced the strange new argument of Austrian Royalists: If Dollfuss were killed, there is no second Dollfuss to take his place. If her son, King-Emperor Otto, were killed, a replacement would be fixed by the law of succession...