Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those who go in this week, will probably stay, not breathlessly, nor dewey-eyed, but merely out of curiosity. "Rags are more than riches when worn for virtue's sake" is the moral of "City Girl," a drab tale of seduction in wicked old New York. Phyllis Brooks in the title role does nothing to better a deplorably poor picture...
...money he had) for newspapers, had taken to playing checkers with fellow inmates, had dropped his depressed air. "But the more natural I acted," he said, "the wackier they thought I was." At the end of ten days, Patient Carlin was losing sleep, losing his appetite for the drab, saltless food, and began to realize that his surroundings were having no good effect on him. As a voluntary patient he petitioned for release, saying he felt much better. Rockland's officials told him that he was an incipient dementia praecox victim, warned him to withdraw his petition, threatened...
...first act is a boring family party. The Conways are celebrating Daughter Kay's (Jessica Tandy) 21st birthday by playing charades and talking big about the future. All of them look forward to successful careers, happy marriages. Suddenly Kay, Cassandra-like, peers into the night and foresees the drab reality...
...farmhouses in the hills of Connecticut, the Beards turn out their fat, factual pamphlets on governments, armies, women and businessmen. In a huge, drab, wooden building that was once a boys' school, Charles and Mary Beard, now engaged on a history of the past ten years, live in virtual retirement with no telephone or radio. But each winter they visit Washington, D. C., where Charles Beard sees his good friends Senators Norris and La Follette, Justice Brandeis, Secretary Wallace, and keeps an educated eye open for signs that Congressmen and Senators are doing what his books show they have...
With John McKelvey as editor-in-chief, the 54-page Vol. 1, No. 1 of the Harvard Law Review appeared in April 1887. Bound with the same drab olive paper which has been used ever since, the first issue featured an article by Harvard's James Barr Ames on Purchase for Value Without Notice, went to 300 subscribers. Just as Harvard's late great Christopher Columbus Langdell's methods of case study became the guide for all U. S. law schools,*the Harvard Law Review quickly became the prototype for law reviews. The Columbia Law Times appeared...