Word: dourness
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...things go the way they've been going all year, the Jayvee baseball team should return from New Haven tomorrow with a victory in its season finale. Warren Berg's Freshman outfit seems doomed to end its campaign on a more dour note...
TIME'S correspondent wired: "Wallace has become a bitter, dour man with a developing persecution complex. He would like to succeed to the mantle of Roosevelt but he does not know how to meet the common man whom he champions. His manner repulses people, and he in turn gets more & more resentful. He is a bore. His speeches sometimes put people to sleep. He is completely humorless...
...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...
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...