Word: dourness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Justice McReynolds' resignation was to take effect Feb. 1. Last week the dour, acid old man could still be seen stumping daily out of his apartment house, drawing on huge old leather gauntlets, like those of a 1905 race driver, and driving his car off in jerky bounces, with a grinding clash of gears...
...Mary Pickford, Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy (in cap & gown). Said their host, M. G. M.'s bumbling Louis B. Mayer: "After all, we're all in the same business." The presidents romped and hobnobbed with 50 cinema celebrities, went after autographs so eagerly that Southwestern's dour President Charles E. Diehl exclaimed in disgust: "Grown men acting like that...
Once before, in 1932, the nation had called on him in an emergency, and he had driven to his first inauguration in grey weather, confident and cheery, beside dour Herbert Hoover. Now millions of people the world over, in even greyer weather, looked on the White House as a symbolic lighthouse in the worldwide blackout of democracy...
...Dietz speaks louder than words," said his dour friend, You Foo Too, "and your words have a Harlow sound I predict the Jeffs will be the Pfister draw Blood...
...Long Watch in England is the work of two U. S. citizens who lived, until lately, in Sussex. Neither economists nor journalists but dour, desperately sincere private observers, they presume that much may be intimately perceived, among its inhabitants, that tell the whole fate and meaning of a nation. The Lohrkes' regretful opinion: that England is at once dying, dead and badly in need of burial. They offer some somber and eloquent notes: on the deep feudal loyalty of the rural Englishman like that of a dog to his master; on the fungoid passivity of the English poor...