Word: dourness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When President Gaston Doumergue and Prime Minister Andre Tardieu, both looking rather dour, returned to Paris last week after a flying trip to southwestern France, they could well appreciate why the tricolor banners flying from the walls of the gayest city were tied with black bands. For in, the region whence they had come new torrents of rain had followed thg tragic deluge of last fortnight (TIME, March 17), impeding rescue work, causing new catastrophes. Whole villages had been vacated, and in the city of Bordeaux the populace watched fearfully the rise of the mighty River Garonne, swollen by downpours...
...Union Square were models of decorum during the first two hours of last week's monster demonstration. Conspicuous in the crowd was William Zebu-Ion Foster, No. i Communist in the U. S., and his chief aides-burly, white-haired Editor Robert Minor of the Daily Worker; dour-faced Israel Amter, local Communist organizer. Equally conspicuous was dapper Grover Aloysius Whalen, New York Police Commissioner, and his gold-laced bodyguard, Chief Inspector John O'Brien...
...Eastern lovers of blood, thunder and lurid display. Their psychology seems about as complex, to untutored Western eyes, as that of The Perils of Pauline or Shenandoah. The actors produce sobs and choked voices as easily as did the rural players of the '905 when informed that the dour gentleman in hip boots was about to foreclose the mortgage. Principal among the actors is Tokyjiro Tsutsui of Kyoto. Osaka and Nagoya, who stalks about in the dark robes of "The Shadow Man" and finally commits harakiri with a four-foot knife...