Word: dourness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relics of St. Andrew. Angus. King of the Picts, gave the prelate a duney tract known as the Boar Chase, and the pious Bishop promptly changed its name to St. Andrews. For centuries wind-bitten shepherds had knocked bits of stone about the hummocks with crooked staves in a dour and solitary game called golf, but they did not get around to organizing the Royal & Ancient Golf Club at St. Andrews until 1754. Fortnight ago, little George T. Dunlap Jr., U. S. amateur champion, Johnny Goodman, U. S. open champion, and Boston's spectacled Francis Ouimet, stood with bared...
...daughters, Evelyn Baker St. George of London and Florence Baker Loew of New York, received $5,000,000 each. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt. The original "Commodore" Corneel Vander Bilt left control of New York Central and $90,000,000 of his $100,000,000 estate to his eldest son. Dour, morose Son William Henry was the butt of his father's jests and contempt until one day he skinned his father on the price of a scowload of dung from Staten Island. William Henry more than doubled his inheritance, left $200,000,000 to be divided between his two sons...
...Regent, Admiral Horthy, were responsible for smashing Emperor Karl's pitiful attempt to come back in 1921. Last week Archduke Otto remained safely in his mouldy castle in a wood near Brussels, refused ail interviews. His mother, the Empress Zita, now a dour-faced widow, was in Paris at the bedside of her brother, Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma, desperately ill with an infected heart. The body of Otto's father, the Emperor Karl, lay in a rusty vault on the island of Madeira under a heap of ancient wilted wreaths from European royalty. One thing the Dollfuss...
When Chris and her parson husband, Robert, went to the little town of Segget they found the inhabitants a dour, gnarled lot. Chris was a woman and a realist, not much of a churchwoman, but Robert was a fiery Christian who wanted to make the whole congregation over into decent folk. It took a lot to down him, but gradually he learned that Segget was there to stay. Then he had a vision and turned otherworldly. Chris liked him better in his old role. But when he got up from a sick bed to preach his last sermon she recognized...
...with less consideration. As in the "real" League, ushers were supplied to carry messages from national group to national group. Comely Radcliffe maidens, cleverly clad in white, which contrasted flatteringly with the dull winter garb of their visiting sisters, flitted constantly from contingent to contingent, often transporting billet dour or notes reading "Just to make use of the usher." So the League dispelled ennui...