Word: blanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rhymed Suspicion. This bland explanation disturbed citizens who had expected some day to see the Charter, properly signed & sealed, in a glass case like the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. The whole affair seemed very suspicious to such incurably suspicious journals as the Chicago Tribune. The isolationist Tribune published a frontpage color cartoon of F.D.R. fishing, with this jingle...
...commander in chief of the Allied Expeditionary Air Force, the R.A.F.'s bland, handsome Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory drew no shouts of admiration from U.S. and British airmen, who are used to close teamwork in other theaters. He was an exception to the rule that U.S. flyers regard their opposite R.A.F. numbers as tops in friendly cooperation and red-tapeless administrative skill...
...most quietly fey and edgy comic strips in the U.S. this week made its second appearance in book form. Barnaby and Mr. O'Malley (Holt; $2) is a 328-page collection of the bland fantasies of 38-year-old Crockett Johnson. Johnson's unorthodox strip first appeared two years ago in New York City's tabloid PM, now draws a host of addicts in 31 U.S. newspapers, including the Baltimore Evening Sun, Philadelphia Record, Chicago Sun, St. Louis Star-Times...
This screen reincarnation of Curley's story is not the best picture of 1944, but it is bland and sometimes amusing fantasy...
...seldom missed a report of injustice to Negro troops and has played it for all it would stand, continued to print most of the sensational and baseless yarns which flew around, from standard soldiers' gripes on up. The truth lay somewhere between such red-eyed denunciation and the bland official bunkum of some Army officers that everything was just fine...