Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leverett-Eliot game was a drab affair, neither team being able to get its offense functioning. Eliot had the heavier team but the scrappiness of the Leverett eleven held them in cheek...
...direction the road was black with their automobiles. There was little sobbing in the crowd, much angry muttering. Posted in the yard was a sign which read: THIS IS WHERE PUBLIC SERVICE SENT THEIR COLD-BLOODED KILLERS TO SHOOT INNOCENT CITIZENS WHO SOUGHT TO DEFEND THEIR HOME. In the drab parlor, where John Crempa and his young son and daughter, all arrested last fortnight, sat fiercely brooding, a Roman Catholic priest intoned the service for the dead. Then Sophie Crempa's corpse was lifted in its coffin through a window, lowered to the yard for the crowd...
Most Buddha relics are in Siam and in Japan's great shrine at Mt. Hiei. Buddhists attach no miracle-working powers to them. When Bishop Masuyama arrived in San Francisco on the Taiyo Maru, he and the precious bonelet were escorted by numerous Buddhists to their drab, unimposing Temple at Pine and Octavia Streets. All the Buddhists meditated quietly. Then the Bishop took Buddha's bone to his nearby home where, because of its great value, he planned to keep it until a suitable new temple might be built...
...Prohibition. Seven years ago a syndicate of U. S. hotelmen went two miles deeper into Mexico, to a hot springs oasis and there built a complete, lavish money-spending plant, charged high prices, black-listed the Tijuana riffraff and called their settlement Agua Caliente ("Hot Water"). Repeal killed drab Tijuana, merely boomed the horse & dog racing, the Casino gambling, swimming, drinking at Hot Water. Natives of Hollywood, only an hour and a half away by plane, got in the habit of weekending there. Cineman Joseph Schenck bought into the Hotel, was delighted this year when Warners used his place...
...special trains chuffed in with a trampling, eager throng which other means of transport swelled to 250,000. In all 54 females fainted. With the sun blistering down, George V received on his yacht slews of gold-laced admirals, sea-peacocks who arrived in glittering barges, plus the more drab captains of liners sent to the review as "floating grandstands," the Berengaria, Alcantara and Arandora Star. On some of these, British spenders paid as much as $250 per head for the day's outing in a deluxe suite. Snapping their Kodaks, they caught the Victoria and Albert steaming...