Word: blither
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Lady Mary is, blithe and blither, on her way. Miss Mackay, with Capt. Hinchliffe and their golden-winged monoplane Endeavor, is in the limbo of the lost...
...canine, one of the famed Husky-dog team that took diphtheria antitoxin to Nome in 1925. It was a gift, a new Northeastern mascot, from Dog-driver Leonhard Seppala. Driver Seppala was present. He and the dog rode on a float from the station, with co-ed attendants. The blither spirits of Boston University (enrollment: 10,979) took a leaf from Harvard's book of etiquet and saluted the Northeastern parade with showers of eggs, ice, vegetables;. The Northeasterners did not retaliate. . . . Accepting the Husky-dog, whose team-leader, Balto, has lately been on view in a Los Angeles...
...again the modern Machiavell speaks the credo he has long assumed. Not a treatise which will lift the ethics of the profession of politics into the realm of the ideal, which will make of the gentlemen at Washington the "Guardians" of the state, but a textbook of bunkum and blither, a composite of the formulae of all the successful political Barnums of American history--that, and that alone, is the desire of the garrulous editor of the American Mercury. A lover of the pragmatic, he believe that what works best is best. And, since bunkum is effective, bunkum is best...
...Young Terence led the Van, a blither Swain...
...Author. As one might imagine, Michael Arlen is no Englishman. He plays, dines, dances and drinks with the blither young spirits of Mayfair-the social "Mugs" as he has called them. But he is not of, them. Born on the Danube in Bulgaria, of Armenian parents, he was taken to Manchester, as an infant, educated in schools of the "plebs" and in Switzerland. He became a journalist in London, knew poverty and loneliness...