Word: sourly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...kernels of wheat burst open. This sometimes takes four or five hours. " 'We cook up a batch of it, put it in the ice chest and get some out and warm it up each morning. I suppose it will last for a week or ten days without getting sour.' " Interrogated as to whether they might add Coolidge Porridge to their line of cereals, expressed great amusement, Quaker replied: Oats Co. "Heavens...
...real difference between the Simon Report and the Irwin Plan, the only factor which suggested that progress toward India's aspirations may be made at the conference, was a matter of tone. Great and broad-visioned lawyer though he is, Sir John Simon infuriated Indians by three sour bits of priggery...
...Guild's pinko presentation this year is good Soviet drama, but it is not chiefly concerned with boosting Communism. It is. rather, a majestic piece of stagecraftsmanship which takes as its text the exploitation of helpless, sprawling China by a red-faced British Imperialism, aided and abetted by a sour-faced U. S. Protestantism. Roar China! was written for the famed Meierhold Theatre in Moscow by S. M. Tretyakov, poet, dramatist, photographer, co-editor of Lev (literary monthly...
...might suppose that such a Swiftian critique of the motion picture business springs from an attack of cinematic sour grapes on the part of either Mr. Hart or Mr. Kaufman, who makes his first stage appearance in the part of a disappointed author. Actually, neither man has ever been to Hollywood. But each has spent 30 min. in a studio at Astoria...
...glass, held it aloft and recited as the Club had specified long ago: The camp fire smoulders-ashes jail; The clouds are black athwart the sky; No tap of drums, no bugle call; My comrades, all, Goodbye! He sipped the wine, set down his glass. The Burgundy had turned sour. Mused Last Man Lockwood: "We should have saved ourselves a bottle of old Irish whiskey instead. It would have been nice and oily...