Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week a big, bullet-shaped touring car nosed out of the Derham Custom Body Co.'s plant at Rosemont, Pa., and headed for Manhattan and glory. Army drab -colored, dark -green -leather -upholstered, fitted with a special top that folds down flat so that guests' may sit thereon in comfort to be admired, the sleek, custom-built Chrysler Imperial was destined to be the personal car of the president of the New York World's Fair, the greatest greeter of his time, Grover Aloysius Whalen...
...Pikeville (pop. 3,376), in the drab, hilly, coal-mining country at Kentucky's eastern point, its First National Bank is a wonder that never pales. First National's employes, who start at $85 a month and get four-week vacations, try "to treat each customer as if he was their mother or father or sister or brother." All day every day, customers are entertained not only by the organ but by a 23-tube radio phonograph, playing in subdued tones requests ranging from Toscanini to Whiteman...
...blue denim work caps, blouses and trousers. A typical day's schedule from then on: breakfast, 6:20; sick call, 7; inspection, 7:15; to work at 7:30, off an hour for lunch, off work at 4 p.m.; mail at 4:30; change to Army issue olive drab or khaki for formation and "dress inspection" (instituted a year ago to spruce up the corps) at 5 p.m. Last fortnight Franklin Roosevelt authorized a new forest green uniform, to be issued next fall-when the corps may be not only distinctive but permanent...
...tones of brown which emphasize the bare aridness of the scene. The view of Pajaritc seems to indicate the influence of Cezanne upon Wells in the development of solid forms and is much in the manner of the early Cubists. Here again the hurried, sketchy drawing filled in with drab browns is characteristic of Wells...
...halls, shower rooms, gun turrets and lookout posts--form less than half the picture, for the title refers to the whole military organization of a peace-time democracy. The Government's solution of how to make a people militarized but not militaristic is well shown with pictures of the drab uniforms and hard work that go with "service militaire." The absence of petty regulations and delegation of responsibility to men of low rank is also shown, for these make army life compatible to the independent Frenchman. And to an essentially pacifist people the price of peace, however dear, is less...