Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they lay the main emphasis of their teaching on sin, which in its turn throws the whole structure of Protestant popular devotion out of gear . . . This results in the placing of eucharistic devotion to one side, in the periphery of devotion and as a practical result, Protestant services become drab and lacking in all life and color...
...sseldorf, the Ruhr's money and fashion capital, is drab and desolate. But by night, scrap dealers and black marketeers crowd into such slick cellar restaurants as the Goldene Treppe (Golden Staircase), where they dine on smoked salmon and duck at $12 a meal, and into such cafés as the Allotria (Tomfoolery), where they jitterbug to Bel Mir Bist Du Schön with heavily rouged hostesses known in Germany as Animierdamen-"animation ladies...
Young "Nyrin" became the society's most vocal member. In a drab little shop, whose dusty windows bore the society's name in proud gilt letters, the committee met each week. Around the bare table sat 30 miners, some straight from the pit, the coal dust still runneled into their sweat-sticky faces. Bevan always spoke precisely and to the point. He had suffered from a bad stammer (caused by an uninformed but successful effort to "correct" his left-handedness), but had overcome it by reciting Shakespeare out loud and forcing himself to speak up in public...
Last week Newsman Steele and his colleagues had an answer. The Communist bosses of Peiping dropped a bamboo curtain, cutting off Peiping from the world. All foreign newsmen were ordered to "cease . . . collection of news and dispatching of news telegrams." In the drab, drafty Peking Club, the correspondents met and voted to stay on, at least until they were sure the ban was permanent...
...these six, four were written in 1936, apparently a crucial year for Novelist Greene's development. What gives them literary value is the clarity with which they confront the author's religious faith with the paradoxes and atrocities of reality, including a certain "drab empty forest ... where it is impossible to believe in any spiritual life, in anything outside the nature dying round...