Word: colorlessness
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Since Meade's place on the city's Tax Revision Board theoretically bars him from all political activity, his ward leaders waited for the word to come from his lieutenant, John G. Monks. It came: Boss Meade was backing capable, colorless Republican Candidate George P. Williams...
...Baby Kiss. Goodie has never been shy about his political ambitions. In 1934, as a young and prosperous Los Angeles lawyer, he campaigned vigorously for Frank Merriam, a colorless, conservative long shot in the G.O.P. gubernatorial sweepstakes. In a stroke of fate, Merriam's opponent, the favored "Sunny" Jim Rolph, died. When Merriam became governor, Knight was paid off with an appointment as Superior Court judge in Los Angeles. "I asked for the job," Goodie admits frankly. "Nobody ever gave me a job in my life. Any man who wants a political job gets it because he asked...
...rehearsed ensemble and a measure of interpretive continuity. He was especially fortunate in soprano soloist Jean Lunn. To her customary refinement of diction and gifted insight into the music as a whole. But her singing and a few instrumental solos were the only high spots. The chorus sang with colorless tone and indifferent diction most of the time. Furthermore, Greenebaum made the texture bottom-heavy with a basso continue of four cellos, double bass, and bassoon. As a result, big ensembles plodded badly and the duet for soprano and bass seemed interminable until it finally expired...
Nevertheless, it was a loudly cheered debut. Majestically handsome and graceful, Soprano Tebaldi at first let her voice get hard and edgy in the climaxes. Even so, her phrasing was such a delicate tracery of lovely lights and shades that the other singers sounded colorless by comparison. In the last act, she finally showed why she is compared with such legendary sopranos as Galli-Curci and Claudia Muzio: she sang parts of Willow, Willow, the Ave Maria, and particularly her dying phrases, with ravishing warmth and richness...
...Protector. A plastic that can be sprayed on rugs of all types to form a protective film against soiling has been put on sale by Philadelphia's Artloom Carpet Co. Called "dellay," the plastic is colorless, odorless and noninflammable. An application lasts for about six months...