Word: drab
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Typical also were the capacity crowds which last week, while a sinking stock-market thinned most theatre audiences, filled the Civic Repertory Theatre. Situated on drab 14th Street, it is theatrically "downtown" (28 blocks below Times Square), a dilapidated structure with a facade of fire escapes, balcony pillars obstructing the view, and an unusually oppressive heating plant. It offers few conveniences either to audience or actors except vast, barnlike spaces in which many sets of scenery may simultaneously be hung. Yet last week, and every week this season, it was jammed. It was Mrs. Hoover's first choice...
...Gladys Swarthout, young and comely Kansas City mezzo-soprano, donned drab grey for her Metropolitan debut, smeared her face with ash-colored chalk, sang the role of the blind mother in La Gioconda. Her acting, typically operatic, was credible. Her voice, though sometimes unsteady, was agreeable...
...either by contemporary popularity or by natural hostility to the dicta of the preceeding generation can be just in their estimate. In any event, Sargent must be granted a place of some importance in American art, and the Museum acknowledged fortunate in possessing such examples of his work. The drab mural specimens in Widener require an antidote before the undergraduate novice in art can think of Sargent without prejudice. It may be that acquaintance with vigorous sketches from his prime will aid in counteracting the effect of the pasty colors and blatant spirit of his senility...
With the breaks coming its way and sufficient power to capitalize on them Harvard's football team defeated a rugged Holy Cross eleven Saturday by a 12 to 6 score. It was a drab struggle for the most part, and the 55,000 spectators saw nothing new in the way of a Crimson offense...
...Drab, and more acidly Mercuric was Miss Brossow's paper: "Our family was . . . poor as Job's turkey . . . on a farm in what was then the backwoods in Central Wisconsin." To get enough money to go to college she did housework in Kenosha. "Arriving at Northland, I was sadly disappointed (in the buildings) . . . it is rather an honor to work one's own way than otherwise. . . . I have gotten everything out of college but a job. . . . I am financially embarrassed . . . I wonder, have I truly completed my college career 'with honor...