Word: sorer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sorer than the Senators were the Washington correspondents. They did not like the picture's first shot of a Washington correspondent lying tight and tousled on a sofa...
...slipped again (TIME, May 15). For My Man was introduced in 1920 by Ziegfeld Star Fannie Brice, when her second husband, Nicky Arnstein, was a fugitive on a swindling charge. After seeing Rose of Washington Square, Fannie Brice saw her lawyer. Last week from the owner of a sorer toe came a loud squeal...
...number of rooms in the St. Charles Hotel in New Orleans, the speed of railroads, the price of cotton. But the most notable feature of his trip was its hardships: he was seasick on the Lancashire going South ("I would not wish an enemy's dog a sorer punishment than this deadly seasickness"), exasperated by the slowness of railroads as well as by the smoke in cars that threatened to "transfer us into bacon," frightened by the possibility that the train would go off the track or a rail come through the floor of the car. On steamers...
...matter of real concern.* As long as James M. Landis was chairman, the SEC was in the hands of men more or less conciliatory to Wall Street and crusaders were in the minority. This has long been a sore point with ardent New Dealers and last week it was sorer than ever. Forced to resign after disagreement with associates, Kemper Simpson, SEC economic adviser since 1934, furiously ticked off the SEC for relaxing registration requirements, blamed the severity of the current market crash on its laxity...