Word: colorlessness
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...last, the Faculty Council issued the following statement: "Commercial tutoring rests upon a false theory of education and its practices exert a harmful influence." It wasn't a very exciting statement; anyone used to reading Zane Grey or Shakespeare would have thought it pretty cold and colorless. But after allowances were made for the prose style of an official Harvard communication, and when the statement was placed in its proper historical setting, it began to assume tremendous significance...
...died of melancholia; Elizabeth, the hard-drinking, nominally virgin queen whose beer-barrel figure enabled her to pass off her pregnancies as "indigestion"; infantile, impotent Peter III and insane Paul, "as ugly and misshapen as an abortion," both hideously murdered; Nicholas II's hard, huge, colorless papa; Nicholas himself, "the most pitiful in Russian History," a densely obstinate little man who developed, under the indignities of his jailers, an almost heavenly meekness. Romanovia...
...mixed with several drops of the antigen, a witches' brew of benzoin (a resin from Java or Sumatra), cholesterol (alcohol which occurs in bile), scarlet red (a dye), plain salt water, and alcoholic beefheart extract. If syphilis antibodies are present in the blood, coarse particles develop in the colorless fluid, and clumps of red granules appear around the edges of the mixture. Since the reaction is clearly visible to the naked eye, no microscope is needed...
Benevolent Formality. Maurice Gamelin is generally characterized as colorless. That, however, is the way the French have learned to like their generals best. Napoleons I and III had plenty of color but they did not pay off at the finish. In 1889 colorful General Boulanger came close to seizing the country. The colorful military cliques of the century's turn-on one' side the Catholics and reactionaries; on the other the Radical Socialists and Freemasons-gave France its Dreyfus case. Nowadays no French soldier votes and on the subject of politics the Army is known as la grande...
...prop bridesmaids (gowned), a flower girl, announcements, a photograph of the whole business. Miss Morgan had some ministers (anonymous) on call, said she would pay them from $5 to $25 per ceremony. Thrice married, thrice divorced, Miss Morgan believes she knows "the wedding field." Says she: "Nothing is so colorless as an elopement...