Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Drab, hatchet-faced women parading grimly down the streets of Prague displayed these banners last week...
After so much pretentious pastryware, cunningly but cheaply contrived by city haif-breeds, an honest book like Greenhaul, is as good as good bread. Many a long-cheated stomach should welcome it with enthusiastic rumblings. The story starts plainly and unprepossessingly enough, like any drab, overpopulated family novel: it is laid in dull, provincial, middle-class English surroundings-but instead of developing soporifically or solemnly, pseudo-tragically, pseudo-greatly, Greenbanks gradually, increasingly, compellingly turns into that rare phenomenon: a very good book...
Best Years is a drab little play about a woman who spends the best years of her life taking care of a neurotic mother when she might be enjoying the gayety of a honeymoon in Siberia. So strong is the hold of Mrs. Davis (Jean Adair) on her daughter Cora (Katherine Alexander) that Fred Barton (Harvey Stephens) has to do his courting under her watchful eye. When Cora starts for a dance with him Mrs. Davis collapses in the footlights. During the entire third act Mrs. Davis lies unconscious on a sofa in full view of the audience while other...
Across St. Louis's twisty Free Bridge last week went a rag-tag troupe of some 300 men clad in odds & ends of martial raiment-an old overseas cap here, a dirty olive drab tunic there. A few carried pails in which to make coffee and stews, a few carried clubs. The latter served as "military police." They were supposed to suppress vandalism, prevent radical speechmaking, see that none of the company begged or got drunk. One man carried clippings to show that before the Depression he was an Omaha broker who was ordered to pay $45,000 alimony...
...There is color everywhere, especially in the lives of American women. The only drab things in the American woman's life are her husband and her newspaper...