Word: dourness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...distinguished litterateurs, editors and colyumists present looked apprehensively at dour, bulky Theodore Dreiser.* Mr. Dreiser reddened but sat still, said nothing. Colyumists Heywood Broun and Arthur Brisbane who might have been the two "sage critics" in question, joined in the embarrassing silence. Then Host Long called on jovial Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb to save the situation. Mr. Cobb told Visitor Pilnyak that those present were very fond of him and esteemed him very highly, since, "you see, we don't know enough about you yet to be jealous...
...Dour, red-haired Director Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (real name Plumpe-murnau) was born in 1889, educated at Heidelberg and Berlin University. He got Max Reinhardt to give him a part in The Miracle. In 1921 he started to make movies in Berlin?The Hunchback & The Dancer, The Janus' Head, Nosferatu. In 1925 he surprised the world with The Last Laugh, about a doorman in a big hotel, by many considered the best silent cinema ever filmed. A year later he made Faust, then went to Hollywood where he directed Janet Gaynor in Sunrise and Four Devils...
Innkeeper Malandrini, Lawyer Belotti or dour Priest Don Taddeo. The whole town turned itself into a fiesta, mass meeting, audience, riot. Chorus-girls were billeted everywhere; their sleepless generosity played hob with respectable burghers, set a fad that was followed even by hitherto respectable housewives...
...payments in Berlin (TIME, Sept. 23, et seq.). Switzerland has worked wonders with Tycoon McGarrah. When he reluctantly resigned as board chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to go abroad and try to make the Young Plan work, no clam was closer, no Scotsman more cautious, dour. There was danger then lest reporters trap Mr. McGarrah into what could be construed as an admission that the B. I. S. might become "The World Bank," the omnivorous big brother, the dread competitor of the central banks of the world's nations. One short year ago publicists...
Will Keith Kellogg, 70, head of the vast breakfast food concern at Battle Creek, Mich., last week again belied the general impression that he is a dour moneymaker. He created the W. K. Kellogg Child Welfare Foundation, gave it $1,000,000 for immediate use, provided for a total of $50,000,000 if & when needed...