Word: colorlessness
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...ears, also appeared behind her knees. The doctor told how he finally traced the rash to its cause-the brilliant carmine nail polish used by the patient. The patches of rash at the back of the knees had him stymied, until the woman volunteered that she used colorless nail polish to stop runs in her rayon stockings...
Dreamer-up and director of this big business is bald, bespectacled Ned Irish, a mild, well-mannered, colorless man of 35, who looks more like a high-school Latin teacher than the spittoon-bombarding type of promoter. Ned Irish never owned a camel's-hair coat. After graduating from Penn, he wrote college sports first for Philadelphia newspapers, then on the World-Telegram. Assigned in the early '30s to cover a basketball game in Manhattan College's minuscule gym, he found the doors locked when he got there and such a crowd outside he couldn...
This fanfareless meeting did not mean that the Administration was chilly to Lord Halifax. It did mean that celebrity-loving citizens of the U.S. have found his Lordship a chill, unbending, colorless personality. The qualities which appeal most to his own countrymen-diffidence, reserve, intellectual honesty-make no impression on the U.S. masses...
...emotion, her Madeline Guest, however, tends to become a cross between John's Other Wife and Mary Marlin, the result, no doubt, of Miss Hayes' extensive radio appearances in recent years. In her love scenes she is hungrily abetted by Stanio Braggiotti, who does his best with the colorless Raoul. The Nazi officers, particularly John Wengraf and Tonio Selwart, are excellent and do their best to maintain the high degree of bestiality that is the stage and screen trademark of the Dirty...
...political situation in Texas was confused enough before the Governor jumped in. Three weeks after the campaign's start (TIME, May 5), most observers were ready to tear up their dope sheets. Martin Dies, who eats two Communists for breakfast every morning, was running a surprisingly colorless campaign. Lyndon Johnson, 32, the New Deal's candidate, suffered the awful fate of Wendell Willkie-his voice gave out just as he began a whirlwind speaking tour. If anybody looked strong it was Gerald Mann, 34, Attorney General, who still carries about his eyes a mass of scar tissue from...