Word: drabs
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...olive of Pharmacy, lilac of Dentistry, russet of Forestry, gray of Veterinary Science, lemon of Library Science, light blue of Pedagogy, drab of Commerce and Accountancy, sage of Physical Education, salmon of Public Health, orange of Engineering, silver of Oratory, maize of Agriculture and copper of Economics appear to be arbitrary selections for degrees more recently instituted...
...only avowed object is to work up the drab news of a training camp in good rollcking fashion, evidently in the hope that the hearty laugher it induces, will strengthen the stomach muscles of the oarsmen...
...language until that time arrives when its meaning has been so twisted and broadened that it becomes no longer respectable. Either it will escape this calamity and become a real word, or like the term "flapper", which originally was an apt expression, it will sink to the level of drab profanity...
...happened was not known, but happen it did, apparently some time ago. Into Pecherskaya Monastery at Kiev went agents of the drab Cheka (Russian euphemism for High Court of Justice) ; right up into the belfry went they and discovered $400,000 worth of treasures. Then they came down, arrested 15 high ecclesiastics...
DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS?Eugene O'Neill's drab dissertation on home life in the backwoods of New England. A young wife, old husband, young lover and a murdered child...