Word: colorlessness
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...TIME, Oct. 21, et seq.) has one all sufficient reason for living in Italy: there is no criminal extradition treaty between Italy and Britain. Last week he was more than ever satisfied with his Italian domicile. His four former partners-pale and spectacular Clarence Hatry, stolid Albert Edward Tabor, colorless Edmund Daniels and Charles Graham Dixon-stood at the bar of Old Bailey to be sentenced for forgery, to wit: Swindling nearly $10,000,000 from the British public by borrowing money on forged municipal bonds...
...material for a masterpiece in the situation of these eleven soldiers on the Sahara desert. They had been riding under sealed orders to an unknown destination. A sniper kills their lieutenant and the Arabs steal their horses. Nothing can save them from dying or being shot down on the colorless sand, under the sun like a furnace door, and die they do, one by one-an artist, a vaudeville trouper, a farmer, a clerk, a wagon driver, a prizefighter, an evangelist. Their reactions to the death sentence and the way in which the sentence is executed on each of them...
Oldtime journalists have almost stopped marvelling at the antics and contortions of the Associated Press, for a generation grave, factual and colorless under its late great Founder President Melville Elijah Stone; since 1925 jazzed and "rejuvenated" under General Manager Kent Cooper. But last week oldtimers got one more startle. An Associated Press despatch from Evanston, 111., reported that a blonde girl had sold to housewives some "lily bulbs" which proved, after a week in water, to be stones. Peculiarities of the report were its complete omission of names and its precious form. It was written in something approximating rhymed couplets...
...close friend of Tyrus Cobb and before the latter quit baseball often went to games. He and his wife entertain little, then usually for the younger set in Washington-his daughter is at Bryn Mawr. He is well liked in the Senate, is labeled a "fair" Senator, honest, conscientious, colorless. Every year he makes a few carefully prepared speeches, reads them in a conversational tone without gestures and carefully sends copies to the press gallery for distribution...
...Eyes contain in the retina red, yellow and almost colorless green globules, which may be important in the undetermined mechanism of color vision, stated London's Herbert Eldon Roaf...