Word: colorlessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smiling, pink-cheeked, blue-eyed Westerner, with thinning grey hair and an easy, friendly manner, he specializes in the homely, forthright phrase, a booming laugh, and a bone-crushing handshake; wears well-tailored blue, grey or brown suits, flashy ties, rimless glasses or glasses with colorless horn rims. He has a standing order that his office door remain open to all callers. He is a joiner: the American Legion, the Elks, the Masons (33rd degree and past Grand Master of California), the Native Sons of the Golden West...
Miss Addison was distinctly the star of the evening. She sang her part well technically; but more than that she sang with perfect feeling for the sincere, restrained emotion characteristic of the Handel-Milton combination. Instead of the colorless clarity used for Handel by British sopranos like Isobel Baillie she brought a superb temperate richness to her part...
Some 900 ministers and delegates were representing 473 Foursquare Churches with nearly 100,000 members. Under the colorless but canny leadership of Aimee's 34-year-old son, dapper "Dr." Rolf McPherson, the Foursquare Church is doing its best to evolve from cultishness...
...worth a darn unless they're a-feudin' and pretty soon another clan turns up with plaids and tempers that clash with Parks' outfit. After a couple of deep technicolor breaths of the sky (blue) the trappings (scarlet) and the lochs (emerald) the picture settles down to conversation (colorless, but strongly accented). The time has come to stop looking and listen. Clan wars are futile, says the hero sand because his bonny one belongs to the other clan, the time has come to make up. Ellen Drew, the bonny one, flashes her eyes at him and aggravates her clansmen. They...
...manager, a man with the habit of obedience to authority, lined up his underlings. The man with the arm band produced a bottle of colorless liquid and barked: "Drink this before locking the vaults." No one thought to ask why an anti-dysentery potion is not just as effective when a bank's vaults are locked. Obediently they gulped the medicine and collapsed in agony...