Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Romance. But unexpected romance saved the Commission's exit from being altogether drab. When Dean Roscoe Pound of the Harvard Law School, second only to Chairman George Woodward Wickersham in legal eminence, went to Washington in 1929 to serve his President as a commissioner, he put up at the Lafayette Hotel on 16th Street. Who should also be staying there but Mrs. Lucy Berry Miller, widow of his old Washington friend, Dr. James E. Miller. When Dean Pound, himself a widower, was not hard at work at the Commission's headquarters, he courted Mrs. Miller about the hotel and elsewhere...
...Corpse in the Constable's Garden" is a story frankly intended for those who like their crime in easy doses with sugar and water. Country parsons, irate squires, several drab daughters, and a handful of good-natured college lads make up the personnel. There is only one death, which is rather late in coming, and most of the 295 pages are given to the narration of family scandals, repressed emotions, and a few glimpses of what a parson's past...
...glassy sea of crime fiction this book bursts up like a breaching sea-serpent. . . . If you have a sneaking suspicion that the general run of detective stones are drab, mechanical, unconvincing ?in short, not so well done as they might be?read The Glass Key and have your suspicion confirmed. Defenders of the old-line detective story might object that The Glass Key is less a detective than a crime story. But whether you are a squeamish voyager among books or so hardened that the roaring forties seem like the doldrums, this book will be a portent...
Winner: a drab-appearing Englishman who not only works for peace but toils for it 365 days every year: Sir Eric Drummond, secretary general of the League of Nations...
...sorry appearance of Nanking Theological Seminary astounds the U. S. visitor who has given his mite to Chinese missions. The Seminary consists of five squat buildings on a drab 20-acre campus. Only furnishings are the scant necessities of Chinese existence. But the 46 students (all natives) embellish their lives with potted plants which they carry around the buildings as the sun moves across the heavens...