Word: colorlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Automatically this made Cuba's colorless and cautious Secretary of State Jose A. Barnet y Vinagres Acting President. Next day the electoral College elected him the Republic's sixth President in 28 months. He clung to about the only thing in Cuba's political ferment he could cling to, the date set by Princeton's Dodds for the next regular election of a President of Cuba...
...night last June that Max Baer clowned away his title to colorless James J. Braddock, thus bringing heavyweight boxing to its all-time low, Joe Louis had been a professional less than one year. Since then the Detroit Negro has brought back to the sport a brand of excitement unknown since the days of Dempsey. Whereas practically nobody has indicated any desire to watch Champion Braddock flex his biceps, record-breaking crowds have squeezed in to watch Louis in encounters which were not much more competitive than Braddock's straight exhibition matches...
...most luridly erotic of all opera heroines has yet to appear on any opera stage. Beside her, Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mzensk would seem a rural innocent (TIME, Feb. 11). The adulterous Marie in Alban Berg's Wozzeck is a colorless nobody compared with Alban Berg's Lulu, a symbol of insatiability conceived in the tortured mind of Playwright Frank Wedekind (Erdgeist, Die Büchse der Pandora). Sooner or later Lulu is bound to make her operatic appearance because of Composer Berg's reputation, the power of his music. Orchestral excerpts from Lulu have...
...word, this Snowden outburst was pathetic. Labor's leaders in Britain are such colorless characters today that for the Party even to flash in the pan last week ghostly Philip Snowden had to rise from his political grave. Reporting on his prophecy, London correspondents canvassed political wiseacres, cabled that the National Government are expected to lose not 200 seats but perhaps 100, which would renew their lease on Power for another five years with an ample majority...
...crack last week when Pacifist Lansbury resigned as Leader, declaring: "I personally cannot see any difference between mass murder organized by the League of Nations and mass murder. ... I have passed my seventy-sixth year, and younger men may carry on." In, as Leader of Labor pro tern, stepped colorless, unimaginative Major Clement Attlee, an acceptable parliamentary wheelhorse, just the man to lose a General Election. In disgust left-wing British Laborites, the small but vigorous Independent Labor Party, manifestoed: "The real issue lies solely between two imperialisms in Africa-British Imperialism and Italian Imperialism. Workers, beware! Sanctions may develop...