Word: dour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With his fractured ankle now well on the mend, he stumped about, a dour Scottish captain dogging his trail. But London reports had him mum and sullen, complaining at being given ordinary food, demanding "extras" for which he said he had money to pay, piqued because no Cabinet ministers had yet visited...
Stamm is thoroughly good-natured, never having unloosed a temper in his thirty-four years. Occasionally, when a class grows a little too boisterous, he tries to coll in with an expression of dour authority. But a student warns, "Temper, temper, little man!" whereupon Teacher breaks into a smile, snaps his fingers and says "Darn...
...Cartoonist Fitzpatrick spent his time last week in a happy whirl of chats and drinks, bought a painting by Max Weber. As a concession to Art, Fitzpatrick had hung two oil paintings among his cartoons: one a Daumier-brown picture of a group of card players, the other a dour, Picassoesque self-portrait (see cut). Of the latter he said sadly: "It was done in one of my blue periods, during a hangover...
...took a hurricane to get Carol Hohen zollern and Magda Lupescu out of Spain. Since the ex-King and his plump Pompa dour fled from Rumania amid a hail of brickbats and the spat of lead against their armored train (TIME. Nov. 25), the Spanish Government has given them asylum but refused to let them push on to Portugal. "I am desperate!" chain-smoking Carol told a London Daily Express reporter. "If I do not get a favorable reply to my application to leave Spain tomorrow, I will go on a hunger strike!" Carol and Magda continued to eat heartily...
...last week came a little closer to unity in support of Britain at war - just close enough to bring on serious rioting with those of her citizens who do not support Britain at war. To Canada and Australia the war was serious business from the first, but to many dour Afrikaans-speaking Boers of the Rand and the Transvaal in the Union of South Africa it was just another cause for dissatisfaction with the British. Plenty of backveld farmers and Kimberley merchants are unreconstructed. Their long memories reach back to the Great Trek of 1835-38 when stubborn Dutch farmers...