Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About one-third of Robert's 54 faculty members are U. S. citizens. Officially they lead a drab, secluded life. Penalty for drinking is instant dismissal. Though Robert is non-sectarian and officially nonproselytizing, the ruling element in the faculty is composed of oldsters rooted in the missionary tradition. But younger facultymen, adventurous college graduates, mostly from the West and Midwest, go out on three-year contracts to see Life. Istanbul has a gay foreign colony and night life...
...racially pure than many of his subjects. His mother, Princess Clementina, was German-Polish, the granddaughter of John Sobieski, famed Turk-toppler. From her Prince Charlie inherited his charm, his love of adventure. Clementina's marriage with Pretender James was a runaway to romance that turned into a drab political alliance; the Old Pretender was not the glamorous figure his son turned...
...been carried, from a coffin crammed with counterfeit banknotes to a notorious suede moneybag containing only a Moslem potentate knew what. Every threat of Balkan war, every komitadji bandit raid near the steel rails, every chronic Bulgarian earth tremor means costly problems to the trilingual Frenchmen in creased, drab uniforms who somehow always get the Orient Express through...
...Radcliffe Choral Society's singing of the delightfully naive, yet technically intricate madrigal, "The Nightingale," of Weelkes, and in the "Arkansas Traveler," more than made up for a rather drab and mechanical interpretation of a Gluck chorus from "Orpheus...
...City; Ginger Rogers is not a Princess of Russia but only a Mistress of a Good Heart, which she uses frequently. Their romance rises and declines in a New York tenement until it becomes so complicated that the Police Department has to be whipped into effective action. While the drab parts drag, the humorous situations provoke smiles if not a chuckle...