Word: dourness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lintz; she had bought the little creature from the captain of an African freighter. But Buddy belonged spiritually to Kroener. He helped nurse the little gorilla back to health. Buddy grew, learned to walk erect, romped with innocent menace around Mrs. Lintz's Brooklyn home with the taciturn, dour-faced ex-butcher. The baby grew up into 200 pounds of gorilla. Mrs. Lintz, who had a cage waiting, decided that the time had come to lock Buddy up. The job fell to Kroener. Wooden-faced, he slammed and locked the cage door...
...Stanford's dour President Ray Lyman Wilbur admonished U.S. educators, convened last week in lusty San Francisco, whose bars were jampacked with soldiers & sailors...
Three years as a male nurse in a German ambulance corps during the last war turned Painter Beckmann's mind to religious subjects, and for several years he painted dour Christs, saints and martyrs. An avid reader of Schopenhauer and other German philosophers, he found his own fantastically mystical style in the 19203, found also a ready market for his work in the salons of democratic Germany...
...replace Nimitz in the BUNAV went Rear Admiral Randall Jacobs, 56, grim-faced, dour veteran (38 years), lately at sea with the Atlantic Fleet...
...Dour, taciturn Brigadier General Gladeon M. Barnes, of the Army's Ordnance Department, announced that a civilian plant was being tooled up for production of the new piece. The sky-prodder is a 4.7-in. caliber cannon that will hurl shells more than 40,000 feet up-more than seven and a half miles. The range is neither theoretical nor guesswork. An adaptation of an earlier gun, the 4.7 has already been thoroughly tested...