Word: dourness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story opens in Kansas-the "Bleeding Kansas" of 1856. Dour John Brown, scratching a bare living as a farmer in the Adirondacks, was a fanatical Abolitionist. He had sent some of his seven big sons out to help settle Kansas, keep her from becoming a slave state. Soon they needed help, sent word rifles would come in handier than bread. John Brown took the rifles out himself. When the Southerners burned Lawrence, John Brown took a bloody revenge. With a small party he went in the dead of night to enemy cabins, took men out of their beds and killed...
Four political manipulators who can nominate a President tell a dour statesman that he lost the nomination and his one chance for national sex appeal when Claudette Colbert refused to marry him. But when they see a medicine show in which a silver-tongued mountebank and his assistant (Jimmy Durante) are selling their medical compound, they see the natural resemblance between the showman (Actor Cohan) and the Statesman (Actor Cohan). They hatch a plan to elect the statesman president on the show-window antics of the showman. Miss Colbert and the statesman's butler are deceived by the imposture...
...father. He had time and opportunity to become an all-round athlete in college (University of Toronto). His golf form was perfected by professionals in Scotland. Johnny Goodman learned as a caddy. Bashful, reticent, Somerville played throughout the tournament with a masklike mien. Sports writers described him as dour. Loosening up afterward he explained that he thought a stranger in another land should be quiet, that if he talked he was afraid he might appear to be "talking some one out of a match...
...Dour little Bobby Cruickshank played so badly against Al Watrous of Detroit that he was 9 down on the 24th green. Watrous felt sorry for him and conceded a hard six-foot putt for a half. Bobby Cruickshank plays his best golf when he is angry; sympathy makes him furious. He won nine of the next eleven holes, clinched the match on the 41st green by pitching a niblick shot dead and dropping the putt for a 4 while Watrous, on the green in 2, took...
...nine has been conceded by the estate. Five of the nine sold their interests to 14 charitable institutions named as beneficiaries in the will for $7,500. cash down, $17,500 more if the will is broken. Several others, not of the chosen 27. surrendered soon after a gaunt, dour Scot named Thomas Patrick Morris, 52. unemployed Brooklyn housepainter, told the court an astonishing story : That he is the son of Ella Wendel's brother, the late John Gottlieb Wendel. Speaking laboriously (he suffers from angina pectoris) Claim ant Morris said he was the issue of a secret marriage...