Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feel that a leader is necessary, that it must have a president. To destroy this inherent belief would be to take the vitality from the class. What would Harvard classes do without officers to draw up lists of the nominees that shall follow them? What would be more drab than a congratulatory or consolatory letter signed "Member Student Council" instead of the heart warming and personal "President" or "Secretary"? And the future Junior Class presidents have a now duty now, the annual announcement that their class will follow precedent and not have a Junior Prom. After all, the class officers...
...Drab as Dreiser was the murder of Marvin Drew. He was a jobless railroad section hand at Ashland, Miss. His wife Pearl, 30, had borne him three children, was great with a fourth. On a hot July evening last year he was asleep in his bed, with his daughter, Dorothy Louise, 7, at his side, when Mrs. Drew entered his room lumberingly, shot him through the heart. Her reasons: drink, other women, gossip...
Kitty Marion's father, a harsh German (Westphalian), would bang her childish head with the knob of his long German pipe, to show her he was family boss. When she was 15, a stocky red-headed youngster, she ran away from the Westphalian home to England. After, drab vicissitudes there she became an actress of small parts, famed in a minor way for her vigorous championing of underdogs. One day she heard Emmeline Pankhurst speak on suffragism. Miss Marion* became a militant suffraget. To break her first plate-glass window she was obliged to throw two bricks, because...
...play speeds the attack and often sends it off a jump ahead of the opposing team. Ellis seems to have out-distanced the field in the race for the net guardians post and should be a fixture for the rest of the campaign. His play has been brilliant and drab in spots, and can be improved in many respects. Many of his shortcomings must be attributed to his lack of experience (it's his first season with the varsity) but not little depends on his future development. Ellis must clear with more confidence and use his stick more efficiently. Very...
...going, Frederic Moseley Sackett, until lately Senator from Kentucky, sailed out of New York harbor last week aboard the S. S. President Harding to take up the first diplomatic duty of his life as U. S. Ambassador to Germany. With him went Mrs. Sackett. Their departure was almost drab. Only a handful of friends Godsped them from the Hoboken pier. In contrast to the departure for Paris of Ambassador Edge, that other Senator also just beginning a diplomatic career, nobody asked Ambassador Sackett to make any farewell speeches. Nobody gave him any parting banquets. Nobody serenaded him with bands. Nobody...