Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond, April Hours are over. Where a few days ago it was March, and drab, it is now spring. Largely because of parietal restrictions applying to Memorial Hall Tower, love and the flowery path have played little part in the Vagabond's life; he has sulked in the gloom while others soared to free, empyrean heights. Yet now, with the advent of the vernal release, he feels strange stirrings deep within him. He clamps his unruly heart with all the force of the elaborate apparatus of inner standard given him by Professor Babbitt. But the bolts have rusted and weakened...
From his childhood up Theodore Bulpington had an imaginary alter ego which he called the Bulpington of Blup, a romantic dream-figure in which he increasingly took refuge from the drab reality of himself. Only child of a dilettante critic and an "advanced" mother, Theodore was born into an artistic, late-1890-ish world, soon took on the protective coloration of his environment. When he met Professor Broxted's children, Teddy and Margaret, he became aware of Science. From then on it was one long discussion, foaming with excitable Wellsian phrases and figures of speech. The children grew...
...that one of Schaaf's two managers is Champion Jack Sharkey and the other is Champion Sharkey's manager, fat Johnny Buckley. Next bout on the Schaaf program would properly be against huge Primo Camera with the winner to meet Sharkey for the title. This prospect seemed drab because 1) Sharkey has already beaten Camera, 2) it would seem improper for Schaaf to fight his own comanager. As a preliminary step toward straightening out the difficulty, Manager Buckley last week agreed to cancel his contract with Schaaf...
Hero is a young factory worker in a U.S. industrial town. Fed up with his drab, machined life he quits work, wanders out into the country. Going through some woods, he sees a Negro lynched. A farmer gives him a job. He casts lustful eyes on the farmer's wife, lets his imagination run away with him and tries to rape her. Her scream brings the old farmer, sends the hero flying. A vegetarian hermit takes him in, tries to teach him the good life. But he is obsessed by thoughts of the factory; he leaves the hermit...
Into Manhattan's Town Hall where many earnest musicians have made drab little debuts and never been heard from again, there crowded one afternoon last week flashlight and newsreel photographers, traffic cops and star reporters. The occasion was just one more debut. A product of Manhattan's lower East Side was going to show how he could sing. But this one's name happened to be Alfred Emanuel Smith. He was making a debut to boost the New York Infirmary for Women & Children for which Banker Frank Arthur Vanderlip's comely, energetic wife collects funds...