Word: dourness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lindley, a dour, bristle-haired lawyer who has been a Stassen strategist since the time Stassen was a brash county attorney bucking the G.O.P. machine for nomination as governor. He is treasurer of the Minnesota Fund, holds the purse...
...eight games to date, the team has delivered into the loving hands of dour Dolph Samborski a conglomeration consisting of three wins, one tie, and four losses, well mixed and generously soaked with New England precipitation...
...heaviest on Army Day. Shortly after noon, the President put on his morning clothes, went to the Washington Heights Presbyterian Church to attend the funeral of Maurice C. Latta, executive clerk at the White House since the McKinley Administration. The President was fond of Maurice Latta, a dour but efficient man. As the brief service ended, Harry Truman brushed a tear from...
Milwaukee also elected a new mayor last week: slim, young (35) Frank Zeidler, a Socialist. He will be the town's third Socialist mayor in 38 years and the second Zeidler in eight. In 1940, his late brother Carl, a conservative nonpartisan, unseated dour Daniel W. Hoan, who had been Milwaukee's Socialist mayor for 24 years. Frank Zeidler's victory did not mean that old-line Socialists had taken over the town again. His party failed to win any other city office...
...will have to shine pretty hard to dry the field," was Dolph Samborski's dour comment on the state of the weather last night as the Varsity nine prepared to try again in its scheduled game with Dovens here at 4 o'clock today. The Freshman will take on B.U. on the adjoining diamond...