Word: dourness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lost an able old White House lieutenant when dour, crafty Charles Michelson, who had taken the skin off scores of Republicans in ten years of speech-ghosting and column writing, decided to retire (at 74) as Democratic publicist...
...dour railroad man, no old-line ship operator, but shrewd, realistic, ultra-air-minded William Allan Patterson, President of United Air Lines, rose up last week to say that a lot of talk about the future of the airplane...
...Manhattan's Town Hall dour Wanda Landowska took her bow in a harpsichord recital which critics pronounced the finest tinkling of its kind. At Carnegie Hall a recital by dignified Pianist Egon Petri followed the recital of an indomitable U.S. lady violinist, Byrd Elliot, who perennially performs before an audience that would scarcely strain the capacity of an average front parlor. Baritone Yves Tinayre, accompanied by a troop of dramatic dancers, moaned the music of medieval French masters in a recital which one critic described as "constricted cooing...
...think that's Eben Finney," replied his sour, dour friend. "And Frankely, I think we'd better get behind a Sandbach; here comes a Tiger aerial bomb...
Another airman was a less frequent visitor: dour, taciturn, officially ruthless Lieut. General Joseph McNarney, Deputy Chief of Staff, whose rise was in some ways symbolic of the Air Forces' new prestige in the Army. McNarney has a job of the first importance which might have gone to a groundsman. As General Marshall's trusted deputy, he alone is empowered to act in the name of the Chief on many matters which otherwise would sponge up General Marshall's crowded hours...