Word: blanding
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Much? Republican and Democratic National Committees closed their campaign books with bland, canary-swallowing announcements that their expenditures had been kept tidily within the $3,000,000 limit set by the Hatch Act. Their combined outlay for the 1936 campaign had been $14,544,000. To those who considered 1940's tremendous activity, its hours of high-cost radio time, its scores of expensive full-page advertisements in hundreds of newspapers, it was obvious that others besides the national committees had spent a lot of money. It looked like one of the most expensive U. S. campaigns ever...
Looking on and loving it were: plump, pleasant Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman of New York; bland, swart Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Pius XII's Apostolic Delegate to the U. S. They were glad to see priests adept at quick comebacks. Said Delegate Cicognani: "The apostles preached in this way. . . . It was in the streets that Our Lord met those who were in bad need...
...little principality where it first danced. Last week, after many complicated schisms in the Russian ballet, the troupe was called the Original Ballet Russe. Colonel de Basil was still its director. But its boss, who hoped to keep it going in Manhattan through the winter, was shrewd, bland S. (for Sol, for Solomon) Hurok, famed concert manager...
...votes for Willkie and most of them were undoubtedly votes against Roosevelt. Besides a great victory Roosevelt also had the greatest vote of no confidence that any President ever received. On Franklin Roosevelt's brow rested something heavier than the laurels of political victory: on his big bland forehead lay a responsibility greater than any President's since Abraham Lincoln. Like Lincoln, he could and must quote Scripture: "A house divided against itself cannot stand...
...Connecticut's big swing to Franklin Roosevelt was too much for its bland, blond Republican Governor Raymond...