Word: dourness
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...once, no one seemed to have objections to a tax plan. Even dour Henry Morgenthau, who has been flatfooted against any tax cuts till war's end, gave his blessing. There seemed little doubt that the plan would slide right through Congress...
...September 1942, the dour, thickset man was first seen around Mrs. Marianna Mayer's James Street lodginghouse. His 12-by-16-ft. room on the parlor floor contained a daybed, couch, wardrobe, desk and a three-foot shelf of romantic German novels. Each morning he left the house at 8:30 for his job in Newark's Downtown Club. There he worked as a bookkeeper, and did not have even the opportunities a bus boy had to overhear talk among the club's members-mostly business executives engaged in making ships, radars, airplane parts...
...first year of T.V.'s life, his father's great friend, a dour little local doctor named Sun Yatsen, performed a historic act. He sent a petition, as was the right of every queued Manchu subject, to the viceroy of the Dowager Empress Tzu-hsi -to grant China western reforms...
...Republican Opposition. "Carthage must be destroyed," cried the dour elder Cato in speech after speech in the Roman Senate. Perhaps it was inevitable that Rome should wipe out its great rival for control of the west Mediterranean basin. But once the Carthaginian menace had been removed, a certain vital tension disappeared from Rome's internal life. With no immediately compelling external problem, Romans started fighting each other...
...such richly colorful material, woven into a narrative that is never schematic, and yet never a mere miscellaneous grab bag of historical information, is Van Wyck Brooks's book constructed. Its individual word-portraits-of Alexander Wilson, the dour ornithologist and bird-painter, of Davy Crockett, teller of tall backwoods tales, who thought they made a book "jump out of the press like a new dollar from a mint-hopper," of Fenimore Cooper, whose father gave him 23 farms in New York State when the future novelist was expelled from Yale-are equal to Brooks's best...