Word: dourness
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...Victor (Gaumont British) is a braw and bracing cinema story directed by versatile young Robert Stevenson (Nine Days a Queen, Non-Stop New York), based on Alfred Ollivant's Bob Son of Battle. As the dour old sheepherder, whose heart is as black as his dog, Black Wull, cinemaudiences may find squat Actor Will Fyffe's burring phrases difficult to understand, his meaning never. Veteran Actor Fyffe's renown as a folksy character is one of the brightest in Britain. His career as an entertainer started in his teens, when in one night he played a gravedigger...
...Wages & Hours Bill out of the Rules Committee where it has reposed since last August with a petition to discharge the Rules Committee. When Majority Leader Sam Rayburn announced that he had signed the petition, urged his confreres to do likewise, Republican Leader Bertrand Snell was inspired to a dour comment. Said...
Well on his wav to becoming the dean of doodlebug promoters last week. Don Zeiter is a dour 41-year-old Ohioan so close-mouthed that he will not admit that Donald is his first name. An oldtime dirt-track manager, he appeared in Detroit five years ago with no worldly goods save a Model T Ford, convinced citizens that the U. S. auto centre should be the centre of U. S. auto racing. He built his motor speedway by securing the site, lumber, oil and contractor's services through profit-sharing agreements, attracted nightly crowds...
...most of its 2.100 words he observed that "the instructions [SEC's] not only permit but invite the omission of such detail." offered in comparison a model prospectus of his own covering the same ground in 250 words. C. "Silly," said Western Union Telegraph Co.'s dour old Vice President John Calvin Willever last week of newspaper reports that Western Union and Postal Telegraph were about to be prosecuted for violation of the anti-trust laws. Prudence, said Mr. Willever, had dictated that in some cities each company should maintain its offices far enough from the other...
...telegraph companies had to reckon with long distance telephone rates now halved, for example, between Chicago and New York. Their response was to work out with the delighted FCC a new scale of night rates embodying the principle of graduated volume discounts which Western Union's dour Vice President John Calvin Willever (TIME, Nov. 2) has long yearned to extend to every type of telegram. Effective June i, the ten-word night message and 50-word night letter were abolished, a new, 25-word minimum night message introduced which could be sent anywhere...