Word: dourness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...apparent to Dictator Stalin's job. He became next in line when a bullet removed the original runner-up, Stalin's "Dear Friend" Sergei Mironovich Kirov. The idea that Heir-Apparent Zhdanov can have a personal opinion about anything not shared by the Kremlin would make even dour Comrade Stalin laugh...
...good fortune to be a member of Mr. Hutchins' sophomore English during the spring of 1936. I don't believe any English teacher ever lived who could read the Lady of the Lake as he did. Tall, dour in appearance, Mr. Hutchins loves a good game of golf and wields a wicked garden spade, and best of all, has a swell sense of humor...
...Usually dour and uncommunicative, the Colonel leads a quiet life in Warsaw, lives in new quarters adjoining the Foreign Office, dines about once a week at the swanky Europejski Café, is a steady drinker. The lovely Mme Beck entertains diplomats once monthly - on the 17th. Both Colonel and Mme Beck were married once before, both were divorced. Because they are susceptible to bronchitis, they usually spend several weeks annually on the sunny French Riviera. Last week the Becks and the Cianos were weekending on a gay hunting party in Bialowieza, Europe's largest forest. The Colonel is known...
Last month there popped up at St. Etienne a dour, baldish, 31-year-old Italian sculptor named Francesco Cremonese, who swore that the Venus was his. He completed it, he said, in 1936, buried it because nobody paid attention to his work, hoping to make a name for himself when...
...papers, then proceeds, by means of a long cutback, to tell the story of his life, ending at the moment when the picture begins. John Abbott (Edward Ellis), prototype of thousands of other country doctors in thousands of other Westports, was a humble, hard working general practitioner, too dour to be popular with his patients, too generous to make them pay their bills. Derived from Katharine Haviland Taylor's story The Failure, related with notable economy, his brief, triumphant biography provides Edward Ellis with a character actor's dream of a fat part. In it he gives...