Word: humorless
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Virginius Dabney has arrived at his liberal views by patient, thoughtful effort and constant conflict with his patrician heritage. His editorials, ground out with painful slowness, are almost pedantically preoccupied with both sides of the question. They are invariably prosaic and humorless. His advocacy last year of the abolition of Jim Crow busses and streetcars in Virginia, which set the whole South on its ear, was put forward in a quiet editorial entitled "The Conservative Course in Race Relations." Excerpt: "Many Virginians probably do not know it, but we have now arrived at the point where radicals from the North...
...woman to be admitted to the rim of a Pacific Coast copy desk, is known to be equipped with a sulphurous vocabulary. She gets news in brusque, traditional police reporter fashion, chases ambulances at any hour, sticks her chin into any situation. Her writing is straight, sometimes awkward, always humorless...
Sergeant Mauldin has been at the front in Sicily and Italy. His battle-weary "Joe," confusedly making the best of his hard, humorless life, began as a diversion for Mauldin's 45th Division, quickly spread to the North African edition of Stars & Stripes...
...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...