Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there are some brilliant spots along the drab, flat thread. It's fun to have a chuckle at pompous, helpless royalty a is "Jubilee," but nobody gets very excited over royalty now-a-days. It's fun to pursue the intricacies of the barter system; to see a man pay for a meal with a chicken; get two chicks and an egg an change; flip the egg to the waiter for a tip. It's positively delightful to see a Gallic jibe at our own despot: to see all the new hats tossed into the river to improve...
...kind hearted Harvard students have adopted a pursuit that is balm in Gilead to the most dejected, the most completely submerged human beings in the United States, those people who write to the 'agony column'of the Saturday Review of Literature. Bringing a note of cheer into the drab lives of these people who have been denied a soul-mate by an unkind fate, the Harvardians pen notes of hope and encouragement every week...
...desperate sense of humor, clutching at whatever pleasing it could find in the sullen array of 'social protest' and of drab 'American scene,' seems to have actuated the prize-awarding jurors. . . . The present show is largely invited and presumably is a carefully considered cross-section of American art as it is being produced in the studios of today. If so, then the proletarian gloom that hangs over our artists is becoming as thick as Stalin's Russian fog."-Clarence Joseph Bulliet in the Chicago Daily News...
Playing to the last substitute when injuries forced two of their regulars out of the game, the Adams gridsters battled the Dunster team to a scoreless tie in a drab, uninteresting game yesterday...
Johansen was the star of the drab affair, making several powerful shots before he finally sunk his-first goal. The Cambridge shot makers were unable to get their team play working smoothly except in a few instances and showed the lack of proper timing...