Word: dourness
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...lofty limb, there to watch the play of his more fortunate fellows. He later explained that he was sorry, had not been addressing Cruickshank. But Cruickshank, unnerved, distracted, missed his first putt for a win, his second putt for a tie, received some sympathy, less money. In golfing circles dour looks still greet mention of a "Mehlhorn." Last week in Atlanta, Ga., a match was played in the course of which golf-etiquette was hilariously, enjoyably violated. Twenty-one ladies foregathered, chose up sides. Each lady was then allotted one club, shape and style determined by drawing slips of paper...
...Roman Catholic Church to the Mexican Government. President Calles?solicitous for his poor, degraded, mean electorate?wants to cut down on the vested interests of the comparatively rich Roman Catholic Church in Mexico and of the very rich foreign corporations. From every oil well he sees rising a dour genie, and in every baptismal font he sees swimming a school of vermin. For the business interests U. S. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg has been the nervous advocate; for the Church, Bishop Diaz has been the obstreperous protagonist. President Calles has been sending Secretary Kellogg temporizing notes; Bishop Diaz...
L.C.M.S. Amery, Secretary of State for the Colonies: "If I were asked to name the most influential member of the Government ... I should name the most dour, the most drab, the least popularly attractive figure in the Cabinet...
Secretary George B. Chandler of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce had worked over the tables of state taxes. Last week he stated dour facts. In Ohio, Carnegie Steel Co. (subsidiary of U. S. Steel) paid 24 different taxes last year. Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. spent more on taxes than on dividends. International Harvester Co., needing a new plant site, studied Ohio taxes, and picked Fort Wayne, Ind., just over the border. U. S. Steel Corp. last year spent $25,000,000 in Pennsylvania, $20,000,000 in the Indiana-Illinois district; and Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. built in Michigan; American...
...hearing outside of Germany, being an account "not so much of countries and peoples as of civilizations and states of souls." This Diary moved the New York Times to compare the author with Dante. Dr. Glenn Frank thought: "Keyserling may turn out to be a John the Baptist." Even dour Dean Inge brightened and said: "A really profound and original book...