Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cold light of reason is applied to the record and personality of the nominee fro the presidency--Alf M. Landon--one is surprised that the American public has ever been cozened into accepting as a candidate for its highest office a man whose record is one of drab mediocrity and whose personal qualifications keep him as far removed from being a presidential possibility as Kansas is removed from the Atlantic seaboard...
...clearly Galsworthy that we see, for the completely impartial presentation has sure earmarks of that placid soul. The favor of the spectator is skillfully kept hanging in the balance, and the genius of the conceiving spirit makes amends for the occasional crudity of the production, such as the very drab courtroom scenes. Mr. Rathbone's support is good but not notable...
...jailbird in drab prison garb only five months ago was Spanish Minister of Labor Juan Lluhi (pronounced Zhoo-i). By last week Madrid elevators had not run for two months and stair-climbers were getting ugly. Abruptly Señor Lluhi settled the elevator operators' strike, by having the elevator owners seized and jailed until they yielded to the operators' demands for higher...
...past few years, the undergraduate addresses at Commencement have been rather futile. In the main, the harangues have been drab, the speakers practically unknown to their classmates, and the general tone that of a stilted secondary school valedictory address. The situation this year is peculiarly grim. The undergraduate chosen from the competition to deliver the annual address is unable to be at the exercises leaving the Commencement officials to search about for a budding Demosthenes...
...only was the regatta, held on Lake Skaneateles, N. Y., highly successful, but pomp and color known only to the campus were added to the event, making an ordinary regatta look dull and drab by comparison. Since that time collegiate drivers have enjoyed the most profound respect in national racing circles, many of them having battled their way to the top in important events outside the realm of college competition...