Word: dourness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neville Chamberlain, the stooped, hawk-nosed and usually dour Chancellor of the British Exchequer, eased tension by declaring with a smile, "Let us not blame anybody. Let us say that circumstances beyond our control wrecked things." Mr. Chamberlain then warned that Great Britain, until last year a so-called "free trade" country, is still in the stage of "constructing tariff walls," ready to take swift reprisal against states which raise theirs higher against British goods...
...associate in these lotteries was the dour printer Reuben Bigland, known on British racetracks as "Telephone Jack." Telephone Jack in 1921 decided that he had not been sufficiently taken care of. He printed and circulated a pamphlet entitled "The Downfall of Horatio Bottomley." This was followed by a second number, "What Horatio Bottomley Has Done for His Country." which contained 24 blank pages. Horatio Bottomley sued for libel, lost, and inadvertently gave away the whole story of the War and Victory loan lotteries. He was tried in 1922 on the specific charge of misappropriating ?5,000. Prosecution brought out that...
...schoolboys read them and are given a Buchan history of the World War-sound, patriotic, safe stuff. For 25 years John Buchan has been an elder in a Scottish church in London. When informed of his appointment as Lord High Commissioner he said: "I am going to be a dour Presbyterian...
Abby-Delight was eldest of a big New England brood. Her father, Samuel Flagg, ruled his family with the same dour thrift he used on his millworkers. Abby-Delight's one taste of freedom was a year at Abbot's Female Academy at Andover. Just when domestic tension was getting too much for her along came rich, lavish Stephen Blanchard, full of tales of the prodigal West, fell in love with her and carried her off with him. In Galena, Ill., then a much livelier town than Chicago, Abby-Delight bore her children, cautiously made friends, was gradually...
...North Carolina and Virginia. Not every one knows that they are mostly the work of one man, Ashby W. Hardy of Petersburg, Va. Traveling roads as far north as Massachusetts, Sign Man Hardy received no outside aid, financial or physical. Some of his thousands of signs-biblical texts and dour injunctions-he painted on board or metal sheets at home, nailed to roadside fences and trees. Others he whitewashed directly on jutting rocks, tin roofs, barns, sheds...