Word: dourness
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...they might sit in judgment on a new Hamlet, critics trooped back to the Forrest Theatre to see the new Jeeter. Consensus was that whereas Barton had brightened up Hull's dour Jeeter, Bell's was even brighter still. In the matter of costume, Hull and Barton were about equally ragged and filthy. Bell's hat seemed a little less greasy, his dungarees a little less torn. He did not spit so emphatically as Hull, nor could he manipulate Jeeter's rheumatic legs so convincingly as Barton. In Bell's hands what Jeeter lost in wickedness, he made...
...private business and frighten off the first faint flutters of returning business confidence. The other school of New Deal thought favors spending Federal funds on a grand scale for maximum social results. To the latter school belongs Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, New Dealer pure-of-heart and dour-of-tongue, who believes in "letting the Government do it" rather than in the Moffett philosophy of "let business have a chance first." Last week these two basic policies collided amid a shower of New Deal sparks...
From the great West appeared John G. Brown, counsel for the Montana Bankers Association, with a dour warning: "When, today they can destroy a contract between man and man, tomorrow some theorist may destroy a solemn contract between man and woman...
...hotel, a market square are established. Many blacks are attracted by Baptist Minister Jones's sensational revivals. More turn to the Catholic mission where Father Domenique cultivates his gentle philosophy and his rose garden. Sister Marte, annoyed with Sister Therese, runs away, makes good her escape by sending dour old Ferryman Lardi, asleep on his raft, to death in the rapids below, then takes refuge with the Joneses until Sister Mary Josephine fetches her back. Old Googli, the cannibal, fashions a pottery jar from the skull of lascivious Brother Francois who had made an insane attack on the sacred virgin...
...Governor of Hudson's Bay Co. is tall dour Major Patrick Ashley Cooper, London financier who won his spurs in South American utilities. Educated at Cambridge, a veteran of the Royal Field Artillery, he is a director of the Bank of England. Bold, progressive, energetic, he was last week on his way to visit Hudson's Bay Company's arctic posts, the first Governor ever to do so in the company's history...