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...There is color everywhere, especially in the lives of American women. The only drab things in the American woman's life are her husband and her newspaper...
...career. On Saturday afternoons, from a safe distance, the boy watched the Reformatory inmates at work. They did not look very unhappy or dangerous to him. And the uniformed guards were things of beauty, in their way. At 17 he was in an Army uniform himself. Three years of drab post-Spanish-American War service led him to seek a career elsewhere. Why not be a prison guard? Friends suggested dog-catching instead, but he was serious. He passed the civil service examination, was ordered to report at Clinton Prison at Dannemora, then known as the Siberia of America. After...
...that Standish and Gore were built so close together. Under other circumstances an addition might have been built to either of them, but there was nothing for it but to ally the two and call it Winthrop House. There can be no question that externally it is the most drab and austere of all the Houses. The Students' Common Room is a rather bleak expanse which suppresses rather than fosters congeniality, the dining room with its undershot alcove has a bit of the steamship about it but is an interesting architectural device and serves its proper purpose. Confronted...
...mounted simply so as to suggest the old mystery plays. Mary of Egypt (German Charlotte Boerner) sang capably last week but, for the rest, the Philharmonic production was amateurish to a degree that Toscanini would never have tolerated. In his own miraculous fashion Toscanini might even have made the drab, derivative music take on color, sound significant...
That Mr. Castle should sound such a drab note is altogether fitting. He is well aware of the allure which government seals possess, an allure which he frankly disowns and discourages. But in his last paragraph the writer stresses another reason for entering into the employ of the United States, the knowledge that one is serving his country effectively. This may seem like romantic idealism to those who scoff at the dignity of public office, but it must be the most satisfactory remuneration for such labor...