Word: humorless
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...would like to succeed to the mantle of Roosevelt but he does not know how to meet the common man whom he champions. His manner repulses people, and he in turn gets more & more resentful. He is a bore. His speeches sometimes put people to sleep. He is completely humorless...
Personal Traits. He is a stocky, black-haired little man with broad shoulders and a wide-lipped Irish face and a slight trace of brogue. He is humorless; shy around women, but an easy mixer among men. He neither smokes nor drinks, wears ill-fitting blue suits and policemen's box-toed shoes. His health is good. Said a friend: "He lives, eats, drinks, sleeps and dreams politics...
Received by Joseph Stalin, from the glassworkers at the Sklara Poremba factory (who are either brave or humorless) : a crystal ball. Stalin shot it along to the Museum of the Revolution...
Mora, the moody, humorless son of a carpenter, has fought all his life. He had to struggle to get his lawyer's education. Since 1932, he has fought in Congress for a Communist program. Now, in the civil war, he has his chance to put it over. To do so, he is prepared to turn the rebellion into a class war. "The people must seal their social gains with blood," he cried last week. "I will not compromise or throw away anything for which I have fought for 25 years...
...magazine that doesn't need parody. But since the "top collegiate comics" who conjure up the monthly Lampoon appear to be up to their navels in negotiable securities, the sixty-five pages of shiny, smooth paper lying around local newsstands this week is an impressive, if sometimes humorless, article...