Word: colorlessness
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During his nineteen-year administration as Masachusetts Commissioner of Education Dr. Smith created an organization which was not only the first of its kind but also a pattern for Departments of Education in other states throughout the country. But this colorless and academic accomplishment held no allure for James M. Curley, who, it is pleasant to note, is a product of the Massachusetts school system before Dr. Smith had an opportunity to establish adequate education. Far outweighing any qualifications he may have had for the post of Commissioner of Education was the man's unpardonable sin--he was a Republican...
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...