Word: dourness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Maurice C. Latta, 78, White House Executive Clerk and its oldest employee (for every Administration since McKinley's); of a heart ailment; in Bethesda, Md. A dour, studiously anonymous "indispensable," "Judge" Latta bossed the more than 200 White House Administration employees. As official messenger, he was privileged to interrupt the U.S. legislature-with the words "I am directed by the President of the United States to deliver a message in writing...
Technicolor's success was a typical Hollywood one-man show, by dour, dignified Dr. (of physics) Herbert T. Kalmus, 66, who plays table tennis, wears dark worsted suits, and keeps pretty much to himself...
World Communism, which seemed to be encroaching almost everywhere last week, suffered a minor setback in Paris. The dour plotters in the Kremlin lost no sleep over it, but Maurice Thorez, French Communist leader, undeniably lost face. For a few days, in fact, his pudgy face was literally disfigured...
...with a fine understanding of suspense, and with admirable candor and tact. There is a lot of good fright in it and a flickering of the frank cruelty which comes naturally to children; but there is no terror and no brutality. Chips Rafferty and his associates, one dark and dour, one crudely comic, are exactly right as a child's idea of bad men. The players are all so likable and unaffected, and the universal moods of childhood adventure are so persuasive, that young moviegoers will probably forgive even the Australian accents. They may get their stiffest thrill...
When I opened the door, there was Sedgwick, and was he ever a sight with sore eyes. Matter of fact, he had them both bandaged so he could hardly see. There was a gentleman with a chauffeur's cap and a dour expression leading my poor roommate...