Word: colorlessness
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When the melon came last Christmas it measured forty percent. Investors appreciated him. His business predictions based on his own key industry were invariably worded as cheerfully as possible. Biographers praised him after they had penetrated the colorless exterior of a man who, to promote the impersonal ends of a vast and complex organization, submerged his own personality. After he moved to Manhattan he collected art, raised fine cattle, went to the opera. But just before he left Wheaton, Ill., to be head of the Federal Corp., a friend found him sitting with his hunting coat...
...only has he never been disappointed, but with hardly an exception has been enthralled not only by the uninterrupted flow of speech which comes from the platform, but even more by the genius with which the kernel of each subject is laid bare without it becoming dessicated or colorless--so much so that the Vagabond even becomes unconscious of uncomfortable new Lecture Room seats, the shape and smoothness of which he deplores...
...life as "not dying." Industrialism continued the war, continued slavery. Lincoln's son headed the Pullman Co. Andrew Carnegie vowed to retire to Oxford at 30 but amassed millions instead, and wished another generation the joy he had missed in libraries. Charles Francis Adams went in for railroads. Colorless, sad Howells, despairing Mark Twain, bitter-black Ambrose Bierce were the successors of Herman Melville, whose grappling with the primeval had been tragic but sublime; of Whitman, whom Mark Twain congratulated on having lived to see the marvels of steam and electricity. "The guts were gone from idealism" and William...
...royalty would be a distinct benefit. Newspaper men would be saved the effort of writing extravagant fiction about a colorless man. The colorless man would not have to expose himself to the twenty-seven diseases transmitted by the finger nails. Perhaps with his new found leisure he might relieve the "official spokesman" of his duties. He might even find time to study foreign affairs...
...Tens of thousands of Viennese apartments stood vacant. Viennese husbands moped; without the competition of smart Jewesses, their wives wore Scotch tweeds, Alpine woollens, no cosmetics. The tearful partings of polyracial relatives only faintly reflected the hardships suffered later by ladies of joy, jewelers, restaurateurs, bartenders. The newspapers became colorless. Gone even from politics was the zest, the vivifying friction of the Aryans' perfect complements in life, the Semites. Poverty and gloom filled Vienna...