Word: dourness
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...Dour, white-haired old Allen Towner Treadway has represented Massachusetts' First District in Congress for 29 of his 74 years. Banker, insurance-company director, hotel owner, Treadway has been an able peacetime servant of his constituents, has well served the Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers as an unofficial watchdog on tax legislation. His knowledge of tax matters is profound and broad...
...worked ten years on the New York Times as reporter and editorial writer. He quit to freelance, wrote popular fiction. Scholarly in tone and appearance, he is no pedant. When the Saturday Review of Literature carried a weighty article on Indiana authors some years ago, he wrote a dour reply: Indiana's greatest contribution to culture was unquestionably the late Cinemactress Carole Lombard...
...Lintz; she had bought the little creature from the captain of an African freighter. But Buddy belonged spiritually to Kroener. He helped nurse the little gorilla back to health. Buddy grew, learned to walk erect, romped with innocent menace around Mrs. Lintz's Brooklyn home with the taciturn, dour-faced ex-butcher. The baby grew up into 200 pounds of gorilla. Mrs. Lintz, who had a cage waiting, decided that the time had come to lock Buddy up. The job fell to Kroener. Wooden-faced, he slammed and locked the cage door...
...Stanford's dour President Ray Lyman Wilbur admonished U.S. educators, convened last week in lusty San Francisco, whose bars were jampacked with soldiers & sailors...
Three years as a male nurse in a German ambulance corps during the last war turned Painter Beckmann's mind to religious subjects, and for several years he painted dour Christs, saints and martyrs. An avid reader of Schopenhauer and other German philosophers, he found his own fantastically mystical style in the 19203, found also a ready market for his work in the salons of democratic Germany...