Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...train in Chicago and saw Candidate Adlai Stevenson being gouged and elbowed and jostled in the howling platform mob, Harry Truman was in his glory. Before the week was out, Truman had left candidates' headquarters heaped with bitten fingernails and transformed the 1956 Democratic National Convention from a drab dogtrot into a race of rare and exhilarating drama...
...opposite), he showed a clutter of everyday things -a book, a bottle of Medoc, a newspaper, a table and a view out the window-as they might appear if refracted by a prism. The result is a much more orderly design than the eye could have seen in his drab, poorly furnished room on the Rue Ravignan, but it testifies to the vision that kept Gris painting there. In 1927, when he was only 40, Gris died of uremia. Long afterward, Picasso, studying one of Gris's paintings, said: "It's grand to see a painter who knew...
...Back in London, Soldier Taylor gives a curt goodbye to an English girl (Dana Wynter)-whose heart breaks in a nice, quiet English way, like a crumpet-and ships back to the little woman and the big house in Connecticut, where he clearly intends to trade in that olive drab for a grey flannel suit...
Brian Moore has told an old-maid joke, if it is realized that the point of the spinster joke is human cruelty-and that none sees the point more clearly than the spinster. There are many conspirators against the old maid. The first is Belfast, "drab facades of the buildings proclaiming the virtues of trade, hard dealing and Presbyterian righteousness," with "the dour Ulster burghers walking proudly among these monuments to their mediocrity...
...limousines. On the swindle sheet were at least two gold-plated Daimlers-one of them upholstered in six zebra skins and costing $42,000. Owned by Daimler, they were built to Lady Docker's specifications and for her use. Said Lady Docker: "We bring glamour and happiness into drab lives. The working class loves everything...