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L.C.M.S. Amery, Secretary of State for the Colonies: "If I were asked to name the most influential member of the Government ... I should name the most dour, the most drab, the least popularly attractive figure in the Cabinet...
Manhattan's Bowery is a slum of light and sweetness compared to London's drab East End. Mist from the Thames and smoke, soot-laden, wrap the long Limehouse streets in a depressing pall of grey. Vice in the East End is as commonplace as elsewhere, though perhaps a bit more furtively unclean. Yet East End squalor has its attractions for aristocrats. Smart Londoners go there occasionally, as do Manhattanites to Harlem's "Black Belt." Blue-blooded Socialists like Lady Cynthia Mosely, daughter of the late Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, dabble there in soapbox oratory.* Thither, for an escape from...
Making and taking the breaks of a see-saw football battle in the Bowl, the Blue Bulldogs rose from the slough of four drab Saturdays of defeat, and rode to a 12 to 7 triumph over the Crimson on two deadly accurate field goals by Wadsworth and Bunnell...
While Harvard was tasting defeat on Saturday, several of the University's future opponents spent rather drab afternoons. Yale, in conquering Georgia by 19 to 0, showed some glaring weaknesses, while Princeton was lucky to tie Washington and Lee 7 to 7. William and Mary, who visit the Stadium this week, fell before a powerful Syracuse eleven...
...heart's desire; of a Chinee hunchback who may have been white-feathered Eros for a Limey roustabout and his pretty moll; or of a pious Chinee merchant who sacrificed his family tablets, and something besides, for his friend the police sergeant. There are other tales, more drab and theatrical, of factory creatures in Stewpony and Clutterfield; and some people think that Author Burke overdoes the seamy side of things. Yet even in a seam he turns up the bright thread. Moreover, he sometimes writes close to subtle, sensitive perfection...