Word: colorlessness
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Bill Langer's choice to beat Nye is Usher Lloyd Burdick, 65, for the last ten years a plodding, mild-mannered U.S. Representative whose hobby is collecting and rebinding old volumes of Wild West Americana. Usher Burdick is a pre-Pearl Harbor isolationist who changed his mind. A colorless radio speaker, lacking the verve and rabble-rousing fire of either Opponent Nye or Boss Langer, Candidate Burdick goes poorly in the cities. He is a great success with small groups of farmers when he rips off his coat and speaks in unvarnished and unrehearsed language. But some of Burdick...
...four years Marshall Field has poured more than $10,000,000 into his papers: New York City's pinkish PM, the New Dealish Chicago Sun and the politically colorless syndicated Sunday supplement Parade. This week he was getting a few tiny drops in return. Parade, least talked about but most widely read, was the first Field publication to go into the black. (Field's reported investment is $1½ millions...
...extreme end of the box is a little man with a hook nose, sunken cheeks, deep sunken eyes. He is French and he wears a string of medals. He looks like an Egyptian mummy, except for the queer glitter in his colorless eyes. Another French officer is fat. His eyebrows slant upward. His normal complexion is purple-red-that of a man bursting with rage...
...Quiet, colorless Party Leader Bracken has avoided taking a seat in Parliament, let Graydon carry the legislative buiden. His strategy turns on the hope that the country is sick & tired of Mackenzie King. Mr. Bracken offers himself as a safe-&-sound administrator, backed by his record of 20 years as Premier of Manitoba...
...ever, made no play for the greatest gallery of his life. In his own way, cautious but sure, steady and tenacious, he hammered away again at the cardinal tenets of his diplomatic philosophy. Thus he made no stirring show, and not much news except in the yard-long, colorless "color" stories in the press. But he did say that...