Word: dourness
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There his son runs a press bureau, is engaged to the daughter of the dour government censor. At a testimonial dinner, Farnum flays the government for its bigotry and intolerance. At once he and his son are ordered to leave. The press bureau is raided, the son's library stripped. Farnum buttonholes his persecutors long enough to harangue them on freedom, progress, humanity, before he is fatally hit In the head with a brick. His speech, however, seems to have led his listeners to plan a more kindly government...
...staunch Dry who asserts he became tipsy on beer at 14. Dr. Reisner toured Manhattan speakeasies during Prohibition, described his experiences in full to the Press. But no dour cleric is he, for he heartily aims to amuse, soothe and edify his parishioners, especially at Sunday night services. Every summer Dr. Reisner holds a snow service, with scrapings from an ice plant. He has held whistling services, given away apples, oranges and bread in literal demonstration of scriptural tenets. Other Broadway Temple entertainment includes newsreels, secular singers, bell-ringers, trumpeters and Mr. & Mrs. Vanderbilt Shrump, bird imitators. Before a mirror...
Within a few years the Antarctic was producing about 70% of the world's oil. Whalers have always cocked a dour eyebrow at the hullabaloo the world makes over explorers. Time & again they have gone to the rescue of an explorer in regions where they had been plying their regular trade for years. When Admiral Byrd went into the Ross Sea in 1929, when the ice was so thick that relatively few whaling expeditions bucked the pack, he found no less than 32 vessels at work. The Ross Sea whaling fleet is composed of big factory ships, each mothering...
...relics of St. Andrew. Angus. King of the Picts, gave the prelate a duney tract known as the Boar Chase, and the pious Bishop promptly changed its name to St. Andrews. For centuries wind-bitten shepherds had knocked bits of stone about the hummocks with crooked staves in a dour and solitary game called golf, but they did not get around to organizing the Royal & Ancient Golf Club at St. Andrews until 1754. Fortnight ago, little George T. Dunlap Jr., U. S. amateur champion, Johnny Goodman, U. S. open champion, and Boston's spectacled Francis Ouimet, stood with bared...
...daughters, Evelyn Baker St. George of London and Florence Baker Loew of New York, received $5,000,000 each. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt. The original "Commodore" Corneel Vander Bilt left control of New York Central and $90,000,000 of his $100,000,000 estate to his eldest son. Dour, morose Son William Henry was the butt of his father's jests and contempt until one day he skinned his father on the price of a scowload of dung from Staten Island. William Henry more than doubled his inheritance, left $200,000,000 to be divided between his two sons...