Word: dourness
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...income was his manufacture of false teeth. While none of these are on view George Washington had a fine set, specially made by Revere, and it is to these, which weighed one pound, and pulled his jaw quite out of shape, that the Father of His Country owed the dour expression of his later life...
...spectacular because it included an explosion shot that dropped into the cup at the 16th, a 45-ft. putt that did the same thing at the 17th. For his fourth round he had a shaky 73 which was still good enough to make his final score look solid. Dour-faced old Macdonald Smith, who tied with his brother for the Open in 1910 and has narrowly missed winning it more often than any other golfer in the world, had needed to gain five strokes to tie. He gained only one. Handsome Victor Ghezzi, needing a final 71, had taken...
Fortnight ago Sonja arrived in Manhattan, squired by her watchful father, whose fur business seldom receives his attention, and her morose, dour-faced mother. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer offered her screen tests, two other companies put in bids. When M-G-M demanded that she skate in her pictures, thus losing her amateur status, she hesitated. Then her sound business sense got the better of her. She signed for the tour. Signed with her was 19 year-old British Jack Dunn, who finished fifth at Garmisch-Partenkirchen last month, is now her most persistent companion...
...ghost is Murdoch Glourie (Robert Donat), a frivolous young shade whose dour father orders him to haunt Glourie Castle in Scotland as penance for an act of characteristic levity committed during the 18th Century. Packed off to fight the English, young Glourie so far disgraces his station as to be killed while hiding behind a powder keg to avoid being thrashed by members of the rival clan of MacLaggan...
...Senate, whose seats are filled by the grey-bearded 'personages,' is addressed [by Mussolini] with the gravity of an elder statesman; the Chamber with tempestuous fervor, and 'high inspiration' and humor. The peasants he salutes in the style of a peasant, harsh, dour, and as the journalists say 'honest!' . . . He does not promise them that the State will make their fortunes, but that, if they work the State will do what it can to help them. . . . The peasants, I think, do not show displeasure when they refer to him as un furbo...