Word: drabbest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collection,† George Korson, a former newspaper reporter of Pottsville, Pa., had been hunting and writing down mine songs for some 14 years. Bristling with disasters, explosions, strikes and brawls, Korson's book makes one of the dourest proletarian records ever to come out of the drabbest of U. S. industrial areas...
...STORY or RECONSTRUCTION-Robert Selph Henry - Bobbs-Merrill ($5). Monumental, 633-page sequel to Author Henry's monumental Story of the Confederacy, restoring life and order to the drabbest, most fiercely confused period in U. S. history...
When a French author is looking for a thoroughly sombre background he is apt to pick that part of France-better known as the provinces-which is not Paris. Claude starts off with as much gloomy naturalism as the drabbest of them, and for the first 50 pages a normally cheerful reader may turn up his coat collar, wish it would stop raining. But if he perseveres beyond this chilling introduction he will soon feel such warming rays as will make his coat unnecessary. By book's end he will have been acclimatized to the varied weather...
Your comments on my letter about the passing of TIME (May 17) have disturbed me. Let me say in no uncertain terms that I hope for TIME'S eternal survival. It came into the drabbest field of writing (news reporting) and made it the gayest. It has done the reading public an inestimable service and deserves heartfelt appreciation...