Word: dourness
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...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...
...Swordsman (Columbia) is set in 18th Century Scotland (which apparently never had a dour day) but still it's just another western. In fact, a few of the grizzled old clansmen lapse into an occasional drawl. Even Hero Larry Parks appears to be still playing in his most successful picture. The Jolson Story: at one point he declaims vibrantly: "Ah luhvs yuh!" But no oater-fan is likely to object to any of the escapes and chases and pounding hooves...
...Kansas' dour, white-haired Republican Congressman Edward Rees seized the moment to bring up his bill for establishment of a five-man federal board of review, which would pass on the loyalty of all employees and applicants. The Rees bill's board would act as prosecutor, judge and jury; furthermore, those accused would be denied the right to confront their accusers and would have no appeal to the courts if found guilty. To many people, these measures seemed to infringe civil rights. But all attempts to modify the bill failed; the House jammed it through...
Died. Julio Tello, 67, Peru's No. 1 archeologist; of an unknown disease that popular legend attributes to germs picked up in old Indian tombs; in Lima, Peru. Fellow experts often disagreed with dour little Tello's historical conclusions, but fellow Indians hailed him for his favorite one: that they are not members of an inferior race...