Word: colorlessness
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...grey mist hung close to the grey, metallic Thames. It was early in the morning and the ships that came from Virginia and the East lay at anchor, silent and calm. Out of the murky water stood the colorless walls and turrets of the Tower of London; and, on the big White Tower, the flag of the Stuarts, wet and heavy, slapped against its pole as the giddy wind of a London fog caught it and let it fall...
...expected to be close. Here again Demo-crats upped their primary vote in two years from 16,000 to 154,000 whereas Republicans let theirs fall from 297,000 to 170,000. Roland H. Hartley, Republican Governor for the last eight years, was defeated for renomination by easygoing, colorless Lieut. Governor John A. Gellatly...
...Eliane has hysterics, finally comes home, tells Philip just what she thinks of him as a man, as a cuckold, as a human being. But she continues to love him. Philip swallows it all, wanders down to the Seine to contemplate suicide timidly; then goes home to his colorless wife, his dreadful Eliane...
What saved the Atlantic City meeting from being altogether colorless and routine was a sudden A. F. of L. interest in unionized racketeering. Before the council, by Investigator Edward F. McGrady, was laid the specific case of President Sam Kaplan of Motion Picture Machine Operators Union Local 306, New York City. The council referred the Kaplan matter to President William C. Elliott of the International Association of Theatrical Stage Employes who promised "special attention immediately." Then easy-going William Green, A. F. of L. president, came out with a public statement which, for him, sounded like a trumpet blast...
Wednesday Evening. Everyone knew that if this singularly colorless convention was to have the slightest splash of pigmentation, now was the time for it. Charles Gates Dawes had refused to permit his friends to boom him for the Vice-Presidency. Opposition to the renomination of Charles Curtis was completely demoralized. Chairman Snell had told the "newspaper boys" that in all probability Dr. Joseph Irwin France, sole Hoover opponent for the Presidency, would not be allowed inside the Stadium. But there would be a struggle worth watching, thought observers, when the Prohibition section of the platform came to the floor. Nicholas...