Word: colorlessness
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...Student, undergraduate paper of Amherst College whose most famed son was Calvin Coolidge, last week came out for the re-election of Franklin Roosevelt. Reason: it found "Governor Landon a colorless and unconvincing candidate." Editor-in-chief of the Student is Henry Stuart Hughes, grandson of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, the G. O. P.'s 1916 Presidential nominee...
Benzedrine is a synthetic colorless liquid, chemically related to adrenalin. Smith, Kline & French Laboratories of Philadelphia have a patent on the drug until 1950. Benzedrine is ordinarily used as a nasal spray or inhalant to reduce congestion due to head colds, sinusitis, rhinitis, hay fever, asthma. Larger doses of the drug cause restlessness, sleeplessness...
...Camera. In 1934 Camera lost it to Baer. In 1935 Baer lost it to James J. Braddock who, of his preceding 25 fights, had contrived to win only ten. To enable Braddock, whose shortcomings were increased by the unanimous if somewhat unreasonable sports-page definition of his character as "colorless," to gain a living from the title he had so unexpectedly acquired, was the job of the Irish champion's Jewish manager, wily little Joe Gould. An unemployed dockworker a few months before he won the title, Braddock has since totally refrained from fighting while making...
...that, in the first case by good management, in the second by accident, the two strongest candidates were unanimously placed on the Republican ticket, a political believe-it-or-not. There were those who still thought that eloquent Mr. Vandenberg would have made a better first mate for colorless Mr. Landon. Fact remained that, excepting the Landonites, no one had worked so hard, nor got up so much steam and sympathy, as Colonel Knox & friends. The impetus of their bloc could now be merged intact with the Landon movement...
...those of the 20th century who think that a Harvard Commencement in the 18th century must have been a very dull and colorless affair, I should like to submit the following notes. The first is from the diary of John Rowe, Boston Merchant, for whom the present Rowe's Wharf in Boston was named. July...