Word: dour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dour Home Secretary Sir John Gilmour last week pardoned and set free good Mrs. May Brownhill who was sentenced to Hang after she confessed, "I did put Dennis to sleep with 100 sleeping tablets, and before I left him I did turn...
...Lean, dour, grey-haired, with black eyes, big ears and dark lines of concentration on his face, Al Munro Elias still spends all his spare time watching baseball games, marking each play nervously on a special pad. The Bureau office, where his brother Walter is general manager, is equipped with an adding machine. Al Munro Elias has his clerks operate it, uses their results to compile his own statistics in his head. He does most of his work at his apartment, except when visiting baseball training camps each spring. In 1928, when he was 56, Al Munro Elias lost...
...they might sit in judgment on a new Hamlet, critics trooped back to the Forrest Theatre to see the new Jeeter. Consensus was that whereas Barton had brightened up Hull's dour Jeeter, Bell's was even brighter still. In the matter of costume, Hull and Barton were about equally ragged and filthy. Bell's hat seemed a little less greasy, his dungarees a little less torn. He did not spit so emphatically as Hull, nor could he manipulate Jeeter's rheumatic legs so convincingly as Barton. In Bell's hands what Jeeter lost in wickedness, he made...
...private business and frighten off the first faint flutters of returning business confidence. The other school of New Deal thought favors spending Federal funds on a grand scale for maximum social results. To the latter school belongs Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, New Dealer pure-of-heart and dour-of-tongue, who believes in "letting the Government do it" rather than in the Moffett philosophy of "let business have a chance first." Last week these two basic policies collided amid a shower of New Deal sparks...
From the great West appeared John G. Brown, counsel for the Montana Bankers Association, with a dour warning: "When, today they can destroy a contract between man and man, tomorrow some theorist may destroy a solemn contract between man and woman...