Word: sour
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...DRINKING at Harvard is on the wane"; an involuntary sigh escaped me at seeing this melancholy statement in a recent College paper. Alas, these degenerate days, and this noble custom going to the dogs! Whither are we tending? Beware lest the sour old Puritanical days of New England return upon us in all their gloom...
...sweet kiss make us sour...
...thing, - wealth, let us say, or knowledge; have we not enough examples to teach us that this one thing would never be reached, and that, even supposing it reached, the poor wretch would still have enough soul to render him miserable, "a little grain of conscience" to "make him sour"? And if we seek for happiness, for success, from culture, about which we are so fond of talking, shall we be more likely to obtain it? Is not the very meaning of culture the education of all our faculties, the widening of all our capacities? Yet how impossible to satisfy...
THOSE papers which devote two thirds of their space to reviewing first-class periodicals, and append a list of such "exchanges," ought to be congratulated on having worked up to the higher plane of literature. Don't howl "sour grapes." They must be regarded as only a little above Dryden Springs Gazette. - Geyser...
Bring me a 'whiskey sour...