Word: humorless
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...with jealousy, its feminine management has been beset by cliques. Headed by diamante-bodiced Mrs. Keith, the orchestra board dropped Ebba Sundstrom. Last week Conductor St. Leger, despite his flourishes and foot-tappings, was praised by Critic Cecil Smith of the Tribune for lightening the symphony's habitual "humorless heavy-handedness." Next month First Violinist Gladys Welge, favorite of one group of players, will try her hand at conducting. In February, Conductor Erno Rapee (Radio City Music Hall) should settle the question of whether a man or a woman can get more out of this 76-woman team. Ebba...
...also stated that the Archbishop is "generally humorless." He would indeed be humourless if he had used the words attributed to him about being chief spokesman of God to his fellow countrymen. As a matter of fact, he has the keenest possible sense of humour (like most of his fellow Scotsmen) and is one of the most highly sought-after after dinner speakers in the whole of London...
None but Jordanstowners would deplore Author Johnson's humane sentiments, but many from other counties will squirm at the humorless rhetoric she dresses them up in. Unreconstructed oldsters who remembered Booth ("Old Tark") Tarkington's The Conquest of Canaan averred that they still preferred his version of the story...
...expansion is the simple principle of Founder-President Charles Rudolph Walgreen that a chain can be as long as it wants provided each link is strong. Each of his corner drugstores in 33 States can stay put so long as it is profitable, no longer. Now 63, bald, humorless, stern-faced Drugman Walgreen started rolling pills in a Dixon, Ill. drugstore in his teens. He left Dixon for Chicago when he was 20, got a drug clerk's job the day he arrived, started studying to be a pharmacist. He bought his first store on Chicago's South...
...diplomats of the humorless Japanese Empire ever know quite how impudently they are being negotiated with by silkily-polite Chinese statesmen, all of whom seem to have a sense of humor as irrepressible as the Chinese countenance is expressionless...