The tired detectives blandished the arrogant suspect in the hope of extracting a confession to a crime.
However hard the students blandished the hostel warden, they could not get to see the rock concert.
To get this most vital haggle started the agents had to go to British Hongkong and blandish their way into a strongly built house protected by elaborate iron gratings and .
George Orwell in New York Times James Hadley Chase's novel "No Orchids for Miss Blandish" was published in 1939, but as George Orwell wrote in a censorious essay, it "seems to have enjoyed its greatest popularity in 1940, during the Battle of Britain and the Blitz."