Word: dourness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yesterday head Coach Harlow drove his Varsity through perhaps the hardest practice session that Soldiers Field has seen since the advent of the usually smiling but now slightly dour Dick. And well he might, for the trio of scouts he sent to see the Cornell-Colgate clash returned dripping with pearly words of glumness...
Keel of the Dollar Line was laid some 40 years ago by dour old Captain Robert Dollar who needed ships for his lumber business in the newly opened Pacific Northwest. A goat-bearded gaffer with a self-made man's canniness and mistrust of others, he drove many a skinflint bargain. In 1928, at 84, he wangled a Government ocean mail subsidy calculated to pay him about $3,000,000 annually. For some $9,000,000 he had already purchased on time from the U. S. Shipping Board twelve vessels then valued at almost...
...accusation that Marxist theoreticians are as dour as they are unintelligible, the favorite Red comeback is the case of John Strachey. Cousin of the late Lytton Strachey, heir to an English baronetcy, former M.P. who in 1931 quit the Mac-Donald coalition government to join the Reds, John Strachey is a softly athletic six-footer who lectures in tails. Smoothtongued, witty, he has made himself a favorite with middle-class lecture audiences, while his Coming Struggle for Power (1933), the first and only "Party line" bestseller, made him a reputation as the nearest thing to a popularizer of the nearly...
Little Miss Broadway (Twentieth Century-Fox) pits Shirley Temple's curls and dimples against the lengthy, dour countenance of Edna May Oliver. To win over a fitful Manhattan millionairess is child's play for Shirley, who has spent her precocious career winning over a variety of toughs, misanthropes, hard-hearted colonels and capricious sea captains...
...operator of the world's first schedule of television broadcasts for public entertainment. Therefore, last month when Sir John Reith's new appointment left BBC without a director-general, the choice of his successor was a matter of prime public interest. Britishers had come to believe that dour, resourceful Sir John was the BBC. For he had never hesitated to take on his own broad, stooped Scottish shoulders direct and total responsibility for BBC policies and moral tone...