Word: dourness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Surrealist pictures sometimes leave gallery-goers with the uneasy suspicion that the joke is on them. Last week a surrealist one-man show in Manhattan gave onlookers the pleasure of being in on the laughs. The paintings, by a dour little Belgian named René Magritte, have Salvador Dali's technical perfection but none of Dali's tiresome bag of Freudian tricks. Sample Magritte subjects: a fountain-as cool and wet-looking as the real thing-which spouts crystal mirrors, crowns, hands and cornucopias; a cigar box puffing a cigar; a door, set up against the sky, opening...
Praying that the dour focus of one Caesar Petrillo will not fall upon their doings, the successful music-hungry performers will receive $1 and the chance to see the scene in which they participate in exchange for their services...
Died. South Trimble, 82, dour-faced, preacherish Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, three-time Congressman from Kentucky; of pneumonia; in Washington. During a record total of 23 years (1911-19, 1931-46) in the clerkship, he signed more appropriation bills than any predecessor, ran the complex machinery of the House as a genial steward runs a club. His duties: filing House documents, disbursing payrolls, recording bills, drafting and engrossing messages, indexing the daily calendar...
This bushy-browed, energetic man of 56 does not look like the popular picture of the dour theologian-much less like a neo-Calvinist theologian. But among top prophets of neo-orthodoxy's contemporary "theology of crisis," Dr. Emil Brunner ranks second only to his fellow Swiss, Karl Earth...
...general consensus of date-takers among those guardians of antiquity seems to be that, "Girls love it." One dour model T man was heard to remark traitorously, however, "The engine makes so much noise, a woman's hearse before she gets home...