Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...naturally to the lips of Kansas Citians themselves. They are aware of their slums and stockyards as well as of their elm-shaded streets and comfortable homes. The city is self-conscious about its culture and somewhat nostalgic about its hell-raising past, and looks down its nose at drab Kansas City, Kansas "across the viaduct." Only 225 miles from the geographical center of the U.S., it has the drive of the East, the traditions of the South (e.g., separate schools for Negroes), and the friendliness and vigor of the West. It annually holds the famed American Royal Livestock...
...exhibition in a Manhattan gallery last week, Soyer's painted models showed their unhappiness by their slouching poses, and the drab color of their flesh and their surroundings. What made gallerygoers look at them twice, and also made museum directors from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Manhattan's Metropolitan and Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute buy up the best, was a familiar (and faintly angelic) detachment in their expressions: the off-guard pensiveness of girls who think themselves alone and unobserved-dressing and undressing, yawning, idly reading, or waiting for a train or subway...
...jailed in a shipping strike; 2) becomes a partner in a theatrical venture featuring lady wrestlers, his task being to recruit the wrestlers; 3) seduces, or almost takes by assault, a middle-aged widow who owns a restaurant, and subsequently marries her. The book is a succession of drab quarrels over boardinghouse tables, dull arguments over money, cynical discussions of socialism, loveless matings on rooming-house beds, artful schemes to marry pregnant girls to somebody else...
Tilden v. the Machine. No man ever scared him, but Rene Lacoste did give him the jitters: "The monotonous regularity with which that unsmiling, drab, almost dull man returned the best I could hit. . . often filled [me] with a wild desire to throw my racket at him, or hit him over the head with...
...like a drab, a very scullion. Vag cried "ah vengeance" once to shake his mind from his thoughts. What a painful process this conscience is. I'll have to stop thinking. When I've been away from awhile I'll mellow, perhaps I'll even forget, said...