Word: dourness
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...French press, observers noted, took a dour view of M. Briand's personal triumph which must be backed up by supplementary legislation. Le Journal des Débats said: "What next? These measures will only suffice for three months or less. Shall we advance along the road of cumulative inflation which leads to catastrophe...
None pleased; the galleries liked the men from the U. S.?big MacDonald Smith, Joe Kirkwood with the curling smile, Jim Barnes, a long, dour man of little talk and less laughter. Before, behind, around these, the populace of that part of Scotland rowdily trailed, pushing prams, spilling lunch baskets. It was a nuisance to the police and the players...
...candles wagging until the company came back to blow them out and sit down to Derby breakfast with day broad at the windows; many a pretty gentleman cut cards and drank his glass who might not have a penny by sunset. It dawned cloudily; the morning was bright and dour in fits, with little spurts of rain and a rattle of distant thunder like uneasy hoofs. On the sidings of the railroad waited eight and a half miles of Pullman cars. Airplanes were neatly parked near the grandstand. Innumerable financiers, editors, sportsmen, presidential candidates and sharkies, who knew a horse...
...little theatre and a collection of the plays from which its scenes derive; Charles Spencer Chaplin, cinema comedian, lightens with one his melancholy hours; G. K. Chesterton, paradoxhund, is said to play with one while thinking out his articles. Many are preserved in Jacobean farmhouses, in Tudor mansions, in dour Scotch castles, in London palaces...
Rotund and rollicking, dour and dignified, thin and thoughtful, the mature members of the U. S. Seniors' Golf Association foregathered at Rye, N. Y., for their annual fest. Not one was there but had spanned 55 years; some had seen 65, some 70, some 75, some 80. When the last score had been totted up in the national senior championship, Claude M. Hart of Boston and Henry S. Redfield of Hartford were found to -be tied at 161 for the 36 holes. They agreed to meet later and have...