Word: humourless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...inner world has little meaning. None of his own crises can ever be interpreted in the light of the common experience of men; each is single, alone, terrifying. In Mr. George Moore this constant dominance of the ego became only faintly irritating, but in Mr. Murry, mere humourless than Moore, and faced with disturbances of a more fundamental kind, it hovers on the embankment between tragedy and pathos...
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