Word: dourness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...medical school. From there he wrote Kirksville friends that he was suspicious of his wife, notified Kirksville tradesmen to cancel her charge accounts, told university friends that he was afraid he was going crazy. In turn his bride informed him that an old suitor of hers, a tall, dour carpenter named Mandeville Zenge, was jealous...
Henry Cotton, last year's winner and this year's heavy favorite, whisked around the course in 68. Dour old Macdonald Smith, who tied for the U.S. Open in 1910 and has never come so close to winning a major tournament since, got a 66 in his first qualifying round, a 69 in his first championship round and then, as usual, slumped. A strange young Texan named Joe Ezar astounded a Scottish gallery less by his qualifying scores (73 & 75) than by the way he made them, wearing a beret which he tossed in the air after good...
...cramming their shelves against a rise in food prices, helped General Foods make $3,680,000 in the March quarter last year. With buying "more nearly normal" in the first three months of this year. General Foods' profits were down to $3,361,000. C. Edward J. Cornish, dour president of National Lead Co., told his stockholders last week that March quarter business was the best for that period since 1930. President Cornish declared that he could easily raise prices but that he preferred not to "squeeze" consumers. Profits from European operations were currently better than from those...
Born 67 years ago in Bald Mount, Pa., the plump, dour little merchant has cherished his farm-learned virtues, of which the dearest is Hard Work. He has spent his millions freely in a long war against Rum, Tobacco and other worldly evils, has set up a $25,000,000 Kresge Foundation to further his moral and philanthropic ends.* Offered a drink or a cigar, Mr. Kresge says politely: "Hoping always to have my own views and opinions respected, I respect the opinions of others." Another Kresgeism: "If there were any sound arguments to be advanced on behalf...
...dour Wilbur Glenn Voliva, overseer of the Christian Catholic (Apostolic) Church, longtime political boss of outlandish Zion, Ill., believer in a flat World and often prophet of its imminent end. the world which he had spent 25 years in building last week crumbled. Zion's voters defeated all but one of his candidates for local office. Creditors of Zion Industries and Institutions Inc., bent on a receivership reorganization which would exclude Voliva from all share in its management, had him haled into Federal court...