Word: sore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quite surprised that you even permitted such an article as the present one entitled Florida, "Sore Thumb" (TIME, Feb. 17). This is one of the most damnable articles that I have ever read. Evidently you are sincerely misinformed about the whole matter...
...some broadcasting business (that he will speak for the committee I am not sure); some bell playing; even fireworks. But of this I now vow to wash my hands and leave it all to Julian Coolidge's Bellboys and more subtle wits. For well I remember last year how sore at my heart I was to have a little putt putt thrust in my face and asked to " 'fess up" when I knew nothing more about it then than I do now. As the ancients would say, 'Twas as if the officer were milking the he-goat and Apted were...
...Germanic Museum at 10 o'clock to hear Dr. Kuhn lecture on "Rubens" and mighty well, too! Peter Paul Rubens, as all do know, be a great 17th century Flemish painter; and, as Guido Reni says: "A fellow who mixes blood with his colors." Yet, I am sore at my heart to confess, I do not like his large women too much. He doth seem to make a virtue of sheer flesh. But who be I to judge? One critic says: "To Rubens, flesh was enticing in its largeness, its soft luminosity, its creamy evenness of tint...and he painted...
Thence I to lunch at Kirkland House and did browse there in the Library where I was told for the second time of a young Radcliffe one who was very sore at heart to find that "St Francis CCC' was not to be found even in the Widener stacks! But never mind, little one, did not even I once upon a time-seek (Widener's) Treasure Room in Lehman Hall...
...like grand railroad posters. I did try to talk with Mr. Mower but so many fine ladies around all a bubble to compliment him -- and yet I doubt if they said much either--that I could not ask or hear much with him himself. And for this I was sore at my heart, for this be Mr. Mower's last term with the Fine Arts Department which he has served so very well these many years. And a very...