Word: colorlessness
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...finds the radiant image of her lover enshrined in fancy as President of the U. S., single-handed conqueror of South Sea Island tribes, hero in all things. This sublimated suitor is, in reality, a ship's steward, opposed by the girl's father who prefers a colorless favorite of his own choosing. The action unfolds before the fantastic beauty of Norman Bel Geddes' scenery. The magic of his perspective puts on the stage of a toy theatre, a mountain-top monastery accessible only by hoisting-basket. His heights are dizzy. Though psychoanalysts snickered, the play does...
...Louis before farmers, but in Manhattan before businessmen, that Mr. Meredith pronounced his farm creed last week. Along with that suave explorer-professor-Senator, Hiram Bingham, and that colorless, dispassionate labor chief, William Green of the A. F. of L., Mr. Meredith addressed the New York State Chamber of Commerce at its annual banquet. His cure for the farmers was no new bonanza - merely an old one, clearly outlined for action. He urged that a federal commission be authorized to fix and guarantee minimum prices on the wheat, corn, cotton, sugar crops and on the production of wool and butter...
...United States Daily, published in Washington, is perhaps the only newspaper in the country which literally prints all news of the Government, and a great deal which no other newspaper would consider news. It is a sort of Congressional Record for the entire Federal machinery, colorless, dispassionate. Last week President Coolidge congratulated David Lawrence, able Washington correspondent and president of the United States Daily, on his newspaper's comprehensive and diagrammatic survey of this machinery; said...
...Northampton with the added stimulus of the President and Mrs. Coolidge's personal votes, Senator Butler barely nosed out Senator-elect Walsh by 53 votes. However, the slap at the Administration is somewhat lessened by the well-known, potent vote-getting powers of Mr. Walsh and the colorless conservatism of business-like Senator Butler...
That it is a calcium sulphate rock, colorless and rather soft; that it is almost unknown to the general public, although widely used...