Word: colorlessness
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...twelve years thereafter. U. S. chemists have since corrobated the green effect in radiumized diamonds. Dr. Field is first to announce a blue-white effect. Other experiments with radium have turned pink synthetic sapphires red or orange; a white sapphire yellow; blue sapphires gray or brownish green; a colorless topaz to amber's color...
MAPE, THE WORLD OF ILLUSION- Andre Maurois-Appleton ($2.50). Enchanting as the world of illusion may be, it becomes tedious when created or interpreted by colorless characters. The author of Ariel (that rare book) has here expended his remarkable power of lucid biographical romancing upon two fruitless subjects out of the three chosen. The power remains admirable, but the reading palls. The young Goethe's windy sentimentality for Charlotte Buff is shown translating itself into that sweet and sticky opus, The Sorrows of the Young Werther. Other chapters demonstrate the dull phenomenon of Mrs. Siddons, a British beauty with...
...Rotters" is, as I have tried to intimate, that it is absolutely innocent of plot, and that the words put in the mouths of the actors are too flat to make up for the commonplaces of the action. Everything happens according to the good, old, established school of countless colorless comedies, and the spectator is tempted to whisper "I told you so," at every well-known incident. If ever there was a man who likes to get back to the root of things, Mr. Maltby has shown himself to be such when looked upon in the light of the jokes...
Plebiscitary Commission,* despatched a superficially colorless cable about his health...
Senator King: "Rather colorless...