Word: dourness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plotting, cloaks & swords, knife-faced Bothwell, caddish Darnley, crafty young Elizabeth, the snaggle-toothed pack of Scots Lords, he has made a poetic play. Designer Robert Edmond Jones has set it against six harsh, splendid sets. The first scene is of Mary's landing at Leith, a "cold, dour, villainous and dastardly" place. The second in England shows Elizabeth plotting to trick Mary into marrying Tudor-blooded Darnley, a Catholic, thus enraging the Protestant Lords and making it impossible for Mary ever to become Queen of Protestant England...
...Lawrence Langner. Guiterman has written neatly lyrical doggerels to be sung to songs based on old French folk-tunes and bergerettes. Able Dancers Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman and assistants give a parody turn and little inspiration to some 17th Cen-tury dances. Pictorially it is nearly perfect. But even dour-faced Osgood Perkins as the tyrannical Brother Sganarelle and childish-voiced June Walker as his ward who is advised to "serve his meals all dank and sultry, and in between commit adultery" cannot make much of Moliere's empty comedy of words and cardboard characterizations. Plot: June Walker...
...observed from the above, this is a novel about England written by a Scot. What is more to the point, it is written by a Scot whose prize stock is a dour sense of satirical nuance. Mr. Macdonnell disguises himself as Donald Cameron, relic of the World War, unemployed Highlander, prospective author of a "book about England." If the skeleton is cumbrous, if humor finds oblivion in an hospitable close, there is enough flaunting of kills to satisfy the average reader. For some mysterious reason, Mr. Christopher Morley was asked to write an introduction...
Underdog. Large among Odhams' assets on entering the newspaper business were two men. One was a grey, square Scot named John Dunbar, dour and extraordinarily shrewd. The other was a swart, stumpy Jew named Julius Salter Elias. Dunbar was made managing editor of the Herald, Elias the chairman and managing director. Rich Publisher Elias, no newsman, is one of the ablest businessmen on Fleet Street. He put John Bull on its feet following the downfall of its former publisher, the late, notorious Horatio Bottomley. Ambitious, he openly seeks a title, and he will get none so long as Scot...
Before the tournament started, dour, one-eyed Tommy Armour had made a brusque comment on Sarazen's reluctance to play: "Hagen, Sarazen and I ... are just about all washed up, only we don't know it." Grinning Sarazen's comment after the tournament was over was: "Pretty good for a washed-up golfer." He had finished his morning round with Goggin-200 lb., 6 ft. instructor at a San Francisco municipal course-1 up, won three of the next five holes, clinched his third P. G. A. championship with a birdie at the 32nd...