Word: dourness
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...father. He had time and opportunity to become an all-round athlete in college (University of Toronto). His golf form was perfected by professionals in Scotland. Johnny Goodman learned as a caddy. Bashful, reticent, Somerville played throughout the tournament with a masklike mien. Sports writers described him as dour. Loosening up afterward he explained that he thought a stranger in another land should be quiet, that if he talked he was afraid he might appear to be "talking some one out of a match...
...Dour little Bobby Cruickshank played so badly against Al Watrous of Detroit that he was 9 down on the 24th green. Watrous felt sorry for him and conceded a hard six-foot putt for a half. Bobby Cruickshank plays his best golf when he is angry; sympathy makes him furious. He won nine of the next eleven holes, clinched the match on the 41st green by pitching a niblick shot dead and dropping the putt for a 4 while Watrous, on the green in 2, took...
...nine has been conceded by the estate. Five of the nine sold their interests to 14 charitable institutions named as beneficiaries in the will for $7,500. cash down, $17,500 more if the will is broken. Several others, not of the chosen 27. surrendered soon after a gaunt, dour Scot named Thomas Patrick Morris, 52. unemployed Brooklyn housepainter, told the court an astonishing story : That he is the son of Ella Wendel's brother, the late John Gottlieb Wendel. Speaking laboriously (he suffers from angina pectoris) Claim ant Morris said he was the issue of a secret marriage...
...Rhoads is no dour, highstrung, achey Dr. Arrowsmith. He is a jovial, rollicking young man who has topped every group he ever has been with. He was president of his high school graduating class at Springfield, Mass., marshal of Bowdoin, 1920, president of Harvard Medical, 1924. Both his A.B. and M.D. degrees were cum laude...
Grant's Secretary of the Interior (1875-77). Chandler's dour effigy now stands in the Capitol's Statuary Hall. The Hales inherited a large slice of the Chandler fortune, made in dry goods in Detroit. Scion of two such potent and distinguished families, young "Freddie" Hale was carefully schooled (Lawrenceville, Groton. Harvard) and steered into the Law as a stepping stone to politics. His father's name and fame helped him to get elected to the Maine House of Representatives for one term (1904). In 1916 he was elected to the U. S. Senate where...