Word: dourness
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After a national plebiscite Canada's William Lyon Mackenzie King took the power, through an order-in-council, to send conscripts abroad-but has not used it. Last week Australia's dour, lank John Curtin sought the same power. Before Parliament was a draft-act amendment that, if it did not carry, might cause his Government to fall. To U.S. soldiers who had come 8,000 miles to help defend Australia, it seemed ludicrous that Australian troops, aside from volunteers, could not move freely throughout the South Pacific. But the Labor Party's no-conscript-overseas plank...
...theory of the frontier to Admiral Mahan's theories of the influence of sea power. Mahan's faith in a British and American crusade committing the U.S. to a "world-spanning imperialist mission in the name of Christ and civilization" is posed against Mark Twain's dour disbelief in extending the blessings of civilization to "Our Brother Who Sits in Darkness...
...Lost an able old White House lieutenant when dour, crafty Charles Michelson, who had taken the skin off scores of Republicans in ten years of speech-ghosting and column writing, decided to retire (at 74) as Democratic publicist...
...dour railroad man, no old-line ship operator, but shrewd, realistic, ultra-air-minded William Allan Patterson, President of United Air Lines, rose up last week to say that a lot of talk about the future of the airplane...
...Manhattan's Town Hall dour Wanda Landowska took her bow in a harpsichord recital which critics pronounced the finest tinkling of its kind. At Carnegie Hall a recital by dignified Pianist Egon Petri followed the recital of an indomitable U.S. lady violinist, Byrd Elliot, who perennially performs before an audience that would scarcely strain the capacity of an average front parlor. Baritone Yves Tinayre, accompanied by a troop of dramatic dancers, moaned the music of medieval French masters in a recital which one critic described as "constricted cooing...