Word: humorlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indomitably toiled on; before she died saw the Ursuline school an integral part of Quebec. (Its present buildings, with seven acres, 600 inmates, still stand on the same site.) Agnes Repplier does her best to humanize this factual account of missionary activity but admits finally: "Mere Marie was fundamentally humorless...
...Speech, The Progressives' meetings were decorous, academic, humorless. Most of the addresses were rehashes of things said and said again in Congress. New ideas were scarce. From Senator Borah came the Big Speech. His subject was Wealth, with a dash of Farm Relief for flavoring. High spot: "To attack the rich because they are rich is one thing but to insist that they shall operate in accordance with honest laws and honest principles is the supreme question today before the American people. . . . Economists have advised us that 3% of the people own 75% of the wealth...
...seriously hurt, not even before de la Cierva learned how to build a rotor that would not fly itself to pieces. Promoter. In sharp contrast to the flamboyant, drum-beating promoter who caused the disastrous aviation "boom" of three years ago, stands Harold F. Pitcairn, 34. Lean, conservative, outwardly humorless, he is third son of the late John Pitcairn, founder of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. The elder Pitcairn, a follower of the Swedish philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg, gave land near the family home at Bryn Athyn, Pa. for the beautiful Swedenborgian Cathedral (New Jerusalem Church) which now stands there...
...that one might expect of the work of the man the Theatre Guild modestly describes as "the greatest living English writer." This apparent lack of interest could go down to one of the few instances of Bostonian theatrical taste. Considered from any angle, this production is dull slow and humorless. The only reason for its being filmed apparently was that Mr. Shaw wrote it, but unfortunately his reasons for indulging in its composition seem unfathomable...
...would not be so surprising, considering how many editors and critics are 'dedicated' to a sense of his unimportance." Slight, professional, Upton Sinclair is an unremitting propagandist for himself and Socialism. When he talks his face is bright with a fanatic smile; he writes with humorless conviction. Eastern-bred, he lives in Pasadena, has twice run as Socialist candidate for Governor of California. Other books: The Jungle, The Brass Check, The Goose-Step, Oil!, Boston...