Word: humorless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before, Ohio's Republican Robert Taft had charged that Secretaries Stimson and Knox, in arguing for the federal ballot, had shown that they "are today running for a fourth term" because they regard themselves as indispensable to the conduct of the war. But after the Roosevelt message, balding, humorless Bob Taft, ordinarily dry and legal in manner, leaped up with red face and flailing arms. He called the President's message a "direct insult" to Congress, and charged that the President is planning to line up soldiers for the Fourth Term "as the WPA workers were marched...
...often before in his turncoat career, dark, humorless, melodramatic Sir Oswald Mosley was the center of a storm last week. As often before, the storm was more important than its center...
...four days, balding, humorless Post Office Attorney Calvin Hassell, a pious man and a Boy Scout worker, led witnesses on a sexy jaunt through a collection of ribald material culled from eleven Esquires. Spectators had the most...
Junior Achievement's somewhat pompous title matches the humorless tone of its national house organ, Achievement (mostly written by J.A.'s elder statesmen), which sags from too much uplift about working hard to succeed. But J.A.'s kids have always been anything but ponderous. Founded 24 years ago by Horace Augustus Moses (head of Strathmore Paper Co.) to teach business methods to adolescents before they went to work, J.A. has done just that for more than 75,000 youngsters. The Moses formula still prevails: up to 15 boys, girls or both, backed by their families or local...
...from England. "Who is James K. Polk?" Americans asked when he was nominated. They still ask. Yet Polk, says Historian DeVoto, was "the only 'strong' president between Jackson and Lincoln." He had "guts," "integrity," could not be "brought to heel." But he was also "pompous," "suspicious," "secretive," "humorless," "vindictive." He believed that "wisdom and patriotism were Democratic monopolies." He made an effort to be generous, sometimes confided to his diary: "Although a Whig he seems a gentleman...