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...Story* moves from west to east, from Kansas City to Sing Sing death chair. It is drab as a freight yard, long and unrelenting as a freight train, dismally disastrous as a fuddled driver and a grade crossing...
...borrow any large number of works in possession of American owners. There are 300 in that exhibition, but it hasn't so many oils as we have. An American friend of Sargent who has seen the collection here remarked on its magnificent brightness, which makes the American Sargents look drab. That's because we have brilliant uniforms and brilliant ceremonies...
This Paraclete in his role as theatrical manager enlists certain actors to play with him in his theatre of life and to bring by their acting some medium of happiness into the drab lives of a group of typical human beings gathered in a boarding house. Evreinov does not have his boarders completely transformed as Jerome K. Jerome did in his more sentimental "Passing of the Third Floor Back"; nor does he have them so quickly return to their misery as does the stern Gorki in his "Lower Depths...
...schools; yet it remained for Mr. James Braden an erstwhile Yale fullback, to write the epic of a football player in such wise as to cast all these press-gentling jobs into well-merited obscurity. For a week his poetic prose has been the chief ornament of the otherwise drab sporting page of the New York World, chanting the life, works, and more significant remarks of "Red" Grange, who recently taught Pennsylvania some of the finer points of open field running. One extract will do to show the poignant lyricism with which Mr. Grange has inspired his biographer: "The poetry...
...Manhattan, they came from half the world around, a brood of nearly 400, from 41 countries, for the 23rd meeting of the Interparliamentary Union. They came in high ships up the harbor and debarked along the drab waterfront, some of them met by friends, many of them by Communists, AntiFascists, any expatriated faction which disrelished what they did at home. But Mayor Hylan's policemen preserved them from harm, and Mayor Hylan himself spoke to them...