Word: dourness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, the Government thought they had found the right man to bring Imperial Airways up to snuff. That man was starchy, six-foot-six Sir John Charles Walsham Reith, a dour, egg-headed, ascetic Aberdonian who since 1922 has had his puritanical thumb on the destinies of the British Broadcasting Corp. Son of a preacher, trained as a Clydeside engineer, he got his job with B.B.C. by the improbable method of answering a want ad for a general manager...
...Wyeth, part real-estate ad, part history, part guide book, all of it unadulterated Mainiac bragging, Trending Into Maine aims belligerently at these main points: 1) that "there are no better people anywhere in the world" than State-of-Mainers, 2) that writers who call Maine natives "dour, sour, cautious, calculating yokels," are dirty liars, and 3) that Maine voters are still the true defenders of liberty, and to hell with Roosevelt...
...Victor (Gaumont British) is a braw and bracing cinema story directed by versatile young Robert Stevenson (Nine Days a Queen, Non-Stop New York), based on Alfred Ollivant's Bob Son of Battle. As the dour old sheepherder, whose heart is as black as his dog, Black Wull, cinemaudiences may find squat Actor Will Fyffe's burring phrases difficult to understand, his meaning never. Veteran Actor Fyffe's renown as a folksy character is one of the brightest in Britain. His career as an entertainer started in his teens, when in one night he played a gravedigger...
...Wages & Hours Bill out of the Rules Committee where it has reposed since last August with a petition to discharge the Rules Committee. When Majority Leader Sam Rayburn announced that he had signed the petition, urged his confreres to do likewise, Republican Leader Bertrand Snell was inspired to a dour comment. Said...
Well on his wav to becoming the dean of doodlebug promoters last week. Don Zeiter is a dour 41-year-old Ohioan so close-mouthed that he will not admit that Donald is his first name. An oldtime dirt-track manager, he appeared in Detroit five years ago with no worldly goods save a Model T Ford, convinced citizens that the U. S. auto centre should be the centre of U. S. auto racing. He built his motor speedway by securing the site, lumber, oil and contractor's services through profit-sharing agreements, attracted nightly crowds...