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blandish

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See: coax, inveigle, persuade, pressure
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THE 1948 British-made yarn starred Linden Travers as the eponymous Miss Blandish with Jack La Rue as Slim Grisson, Walter Crisham and Eddie Schulz and MacDonald Parke as Doc.
Mail Box: Just ask by Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)
In 1944, Orwell inveighed against James Hadley Chase's No Orchids for Miss Blandish (a poor imitation of William Faulkner's Sanctuary) as American-influenced fascist pulp, while the anti-noirish Agee described Billy Wilder's classic Double Indemnity as "tellable trash.
Welcome to Blood-Soaked Sin City, Frank Miller's Morbid Fantasia by Andrew Sarris / The New York Observer
In Raffles and Miss Blandish he called reading the "tough" pre-war thriller No Orchids for Miss Blandish "a header into the cesspool".
World narrowing: notes on Britain's culture-war by Colebatch, Hal G.P. / National Observer - Australia and World Affairs
 
 
 
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