Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Buenos Aires' opera house, the Teatro Colon, is one of the two or three best in the world. Bigger and grander than Manhattan's aged and drab Metropolitan, it has a much longer season: from May through October. This year the Colon's director, Floro Meliton Ugarte, signed Arturo Toscanini (see above} for six concerts with the opera orchestra. Meantime...
...Front. A bag of rice-one of many -was loaded one night last week on a drab, shallow-draft river steamer on the Yangtze River at Chungking. The boat cast off its moorings and rushed downstream on the treacherous current. About 250 miles downstream the terrain suddenly seemed to explode: the river became a narrow torrent, the hills convulsed into forbidding mountains...
...lived like Windy McPherson's son, on the wrong side of the railroad tracks in Clyde, Ohio. With a boy's keen eyes he had seen the hates, passions and queer lives that lie just be hind the drab fagade of a small...
Last week, as Nazi submarines continued their stepped-up campaign against British shipping (see p. 24), an old hypothesis suddenly became an important fact: drab tankers and lumbering freighters were as vital in World War II as airplanes and tanks. A real squeeze in ships was in the making. Unless Washington could find a way to ease the pressure, not only aid to Britain but also the entire U. S. defense program and economic system were about to feel the pinch...
Since New York is the biggest U. S. city, more lives were upset there than anywhere else. Chairman of one of New York's 280 boards was the Rev. George T. Gruman, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in Brooklyn. Mr. Gruman's district is a drab and musty slum, where elevated trains scream past, sidewalks are dirty or nonexistent, and unpainted picket fences fail to dignify the disheveled houses. Before Mr. Gruman, the Lutheran businessman and the president of a Hebrew school who sit with him on Local Board 229, paraded the poor of the district...