Word: colorlessness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...hunch that a way to save teeth from decay might be to encourage the staphylococci by giving them an extra amount of urea to work on. So he made up a mouthwash of carbamide (synthetic urea crystals). The crystals are colorless and odorless, taste cool and salty. He gave the mouthwash to 100 patients to use on their toothbrushes, found that an increased amount of calcium was deposited on their teeth...
...humour. Recorded by Victor on the Baroque organ at the Germanic Museum is Volume 111 of J. S. Bach's Little Organ Book, to my mind the least interesting of the month's releases. The precludes in the volume, written for Christmas and the New year, are dry and colorless, the kind of hack work every composer turns out at some time or other, which had much better be forgotten. Nor does Biggs's jumbled, unclear performance add anything to the music. A different story are the Bach Chorales sung in German by the Trapp Family Choir, also on Victor...
...help the Greeks unless the Turks did and the Turks would not move until the Russians told them to, when they realized how little practical support the British could give, they were grave. They gathered in coffee houses and drank thick Turkish coffee and sipped their ouzo, as colorless and full of kick as corn likker...
Nebraska's able, pay-as-you-go Governor Robert LeRoy Cochran delighted Administration Democrats by beating anti-Roosevelt, anti-Labor Senator Edward R. Burke in the primaries last April. But snow-haired, colorless Hugh A. Butler, former G. O. P. National Committeeman, who was expected to lose the election, turned up with enough votes to beat Governor Cochran...
William D. (for David) Bayles went to Germany in 1932. He taught English for two years at the University of Munich, then free-lanced. In a little Munich cafe he used to see a "small, nervous, threadbare man with bad teeth, greasy, dandruffy hair, a colorless wisp of a mustache, and pale blue eyes which, like his hands, were never quiet." It was Adolf Hitler...