Word: dourness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perspective-a highly useful editorial requisite-was what Matthews was after (except for vacations and an occasional overnight journey, he has scarcely been out of the ME's chair from the day he took it over in the dour month of February...
...Beauty and order are inseparable." So Portugal's dour, scholarly Premier António de Oliveira Salazar is fond of saying. As a spangled religious procession wound through a Lisbon park, both these elements of his 14-year-old clerico-fascist regime were evident. Beauty was represented by the silken banners and swinging censers, order by the plainclothesmen of the dreaded P.V.D.E. (Police of Vigilance and Defense of the State...
...Manhattan, the trial of Henry Lustig had barely begun when the sky started caving in on the dour little owner of Manhattan's twelve glittery Longchamps restaurants. Unexpectedly, two of his four co-defendants pleaded guilty to conspiring with Lustig to defraud the U.S. of $2,872,766 in taxes on wartime profits...
Britain's Minister of Fuel, dour Emanuel Shinwell, balefully noted that some capitalists were lifting up their heads again. Austin Motors' Leonard P. Lord had charged that the Government's February auto production estimate of 10,000 was 2,000 more than the truth. Government estimators were under orders to "paint a rosy picture," said Lord. To the Leeds Labor Council Shinwell made an answer which was Labor's frankest public statement of its attitude toward nationalization of industry...
During the war, Planemaker Donald Douglas half-seriously announced a grim postwar plan: "Shut the damned shop up" (TIME, Nov. 22, 1943). In Los Angeles last week able, dour Donald Douglas, still in business, told his 8,763 stockholders that the Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc.: 1) had made a profit of $8,900,000 in 1945; 2) had a backlog of $219,000,000 in military and commercial orders; 3) could expect no profits...