Word: dourness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little legs, and custard pies in the face, plays the part of a Broadway star who comes to Hollywood at the instigation of Ameche. Though she marries the wrong man first, he contrives to drive into a telegraph pole at the crucial movement, thus leaving the road open to dour Don. In spite of an overdose of Ameche and the triteness of the plot, Buster Keaton and the Cops make it worth dodging through the maniac drivers on Harvard Square...
...Dour, GOP-Hopeful George David Aiken, Governor of Vermont, irked by pleas of pressure groups to "proclaim" special days and weeks for the promotion ot worthy causes and foods, issued a proclamation ending all such proclamations...
Later in the evening Lutheran massed choirs and Swedish patriotic organizations carrying over 700 banners-among them the red flag of Swedish labor, which is Socialist-approached the Royal Palace chanting solemnly, then began to shout "Kallio! Kallio!" Dr. Kallio, often considered dour, suddenly appeared with tears of emotion in his eyes, escorted onto a Palace balcony by the Three Kings and amid deafening cheers the four men linked arms, stood solemnly while the crowd sang the national anthems of their countries and ended with that grand old Lutheran fighting hymn...
...week's end, Dr. J. M. ("Jingle Money") Smith had been indicted 36 times and was under $204,500 bail in the New Orleans jail. Louisiana was not content just to "throw the book" at dour Doctor Smith. Out went State officials, day after day, high and low. Indicted were 14 men ranging from a Standard Oil of Louisiana official to the president of the Louisiana Medical Society to the business manager of Louisiana State University. Baton Rouge kicked out its police chief just to keep in the swing...
...Italy, are beginning to circulate quietly. Anti-Mussolini posters have appeared (briefly) in Milan and Turin. Viva Hitler legends, painted on all the houses along the railway route taken by the Führer on his trip to Rome last year, have been unanimously painted over. There is a dour expression on Italian faces as they watch the heavy-booted Nazi chiefs who now are seen all over the Italian landscape. Crown Prince Umberto, supposed to be antiFascist, is greeted tumultuously whenever he appears...