Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sympathetic U. S. women, alighting in Moscow at dawn from their comfortable tourists' sleeping cars, have been known to burst into tears at the sad sight of Russians in their utterly drab, cast-offlooking clothes...
...carry on meanwhile another Radical Socialist was chosen, drab, henchmanly M. Camille Chautemps who once before did stop-gap duty as Premier, that time for only five days (TIME, March 10, 1930). As announced, the Chautemps Cabinet was virtually the same as that led until last week by Albert Sarraut and previously by Edouard Daladier (see p. 17). In the Chautemps Cabinet, M. Sarraut returned to the Naval Ministry he held under Premier Daladier, M. Daladier kept the War Ministry he held under Premier Sarraut and that shaggy-maned comet of the Paris bar, M. Joseph Paul-Boncour, continued...
...when running a city government and are hopelessly inadequate to the complicated job of manipulating the machinery of a state. Though his term contains one bright gem which made him nationally known--the unconditional refusal of Tom Mooney's petition for a pardon--the remainder has been incompetent and drab. Sunny Jim has been a confused and bewildered man since he entered office, and on this occasion he quite lost his head and reverted to his natural impulses as an American, in the process espousing the thinness of his cultural veneer...
...Eddy Rogers and Allan Sherman, will be in the starting lineup when the Varsity meets the Army in the Stadium this Saturday. These changes were revealed at the close of a drab and uninteresting practice session at Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon...
...mottled, drab program was on the schedule at Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon when the Varsity was drilled for the coming West Point game and the regulars got their first look at the Army plays...