Word: colorlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trial for larceny in Cleveland last week was Clayton Clawson, holdup man famed as "the toughest prisoner ever to be held in Cuyahoga County Jail." Tough Clayton Clawson was conducting his own defense before Judge Samuel Silbert. Suddenly Clayton Clawson whipped out a small bottle of colorless liquid, shouted: "I'm gonna blow everybody to kingdom come...
...with definite personalities. They collect scholars, or athletes, they give characteristic plays and have their own distinctive inner societies. These are the trimmings which make the House. Without them a House is just a place where a student hangs his hat, a dormitory of brick and mortar, characterless and colorless, where no tradition or sentiment can linger long...
...graduated from the University of Montevideo to enter the Uruguayan Foreign Service. He was Minister to Austria from 1911 to 1913, Minister to Belgium until 1925 and since then Minister to France, with occasional trips to represent Uruguay before the League. TIME'S point was precisely that colorless Dr. Guani faced in Comrade Litvinoff a colorful...
...clumsy would-be assassins, survivor of two duels, a railway bridge wreck and several motoring mishaps; the statesman who was the responsible Minister of Interior when scandalously inadequate police protection made possible the assassination of King Alexander of Yugoslavia on French soil, M. Albert Sarraut is an otherwise colorless Radical Socialist wheelhorse whose favorite mot is: "I only need twelve days to recover from anything...
During his nineteen-year administration as Masachusetts Commissioner of Education Dr. Smith created an organization which was not only the first of its kind but also a pattern for Departments of Education in other states throughout the country. But this colorless and academic accomplishment held no allure for James M. Curley, who, it is pleasant to note, is a product of the Massachusetts school system before Dr. Smith had an opportunity to establish adequate education. Far outweighing any qualifications he may have had for the post of Commissioner of Education was the man's unpardonable sin--he was a Republican...