Word: dourness
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...took a hurricane to get Carol Hohen zollern and Magda Lupescu out of Spain. Since the ex-King and his plump Pompa dour fled from Rumania amid a hail of brickbats and the spat of lead against their armored train (TIME. Nov. 25), the Spanish Government has given them asylum but refused to let them push on to Portugal. "I am desperate!" chain-smoking Carol told a London Daily Express reporter. "If I do not get a favorable reply to my application to leave Spain tomorrow, I will go on a hunger strike!" Carol and Magda continued to eat heartily...
...last week came a little closer to unity in support of Britain at war - just close enough to bring on serious rioting with those of her citizens who do not support Britain at war. To Canada and Australia the war was serious business from the first, but to many dour Afrikaans-speaking Boers of the Rand and the Transvaal in the Union of South Africa it was just another cause for dissatisfaction with the British. Plenty of backveld farmers and Kimberley merchants are unreconstructed. Their long memories reach back to the Great Trek of 1835-38 when stubborn Dutch farmers...
...Justice McReynolds' resignation was to take effect Feb. 1. Last week the dour, acid old man could still be seen stumping daily out of his apartment house, drawing on huge old leather gauntlets, like those of a 1905 race driver, and driving his car off in jerky bounces, with a grinding clash of gears...
...Mary Pickford, Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy (in cap & gown). Said their host, M. G. M.'s bumbling Louis B. Mayer: "After all, we're all in the same business." The presidents romped and hobnobbed with 50 cinema celebrities, went after autographs so eagerly that Southwestern's dour President Charles E. Diehl exclaimed in disgust: "Grown men acting like that...
Once before, in 1932, the nation had called on him in an emergency, and he had driven to his first inauguration in grey weather, confident and cheery, beside dour Herbert Hoover. Now millions of people the world over, in even greyer weather, looked on the White House as a symbolic lighthouse in the worldwide blackout of democracy...