Word: soured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will find the Times (circ. 474,000) a paper that sees things his own, New Dealing way, under the guidance of an able, deceptively benign-looking publisher named Richard James Finnegan. The Times has been profitable, which is more than the Sun can say. The Sun will lose its sour-faced executive editor, E. Z. ("Dimmy") Dimitman, whom Field imported from the Philadelphia Inquirer. Dimmy never did have much use for his boss's earnest crusades, and he has less use for tabs. His successor (with the title of managing editor): James Mulroy, who as a Daily News police...
...Journal is the mouthpiece of the potbellied, silk-hatted financiers of New Masses cartoons. But the Journal insists that its loyalty to big business is not blind. On his editorial page last week, Editor William Grimes, a 1947 Pulitzer Prizewinner, tartly told the sugar industry that there was a sour taste to the industry-sponsored Sugar Act of 1948 (see BUSINESS...
...Manhattan milliners, after years of trying to make the American woman look like a helicopter after a crash landing, finally did it. Observers at autumn style shows came away feeling top-heavy. Some hats looked like dishpans swathed in varicolored mosquito netting, others like sour-milk hotcakes. Most of them were as big as barrelheads. It seemed almost certain that by spring U.S. women would have neck muscles like Jim Londos...
...Reason frequently attempts to shock the reader with pointless vulgarity (". . .a faint, sour reek of vomit came from her delicate mouth. Mathieu inhaled it ecstatically"). Existentialists may deny that such scenes are introduced for sensationalism's sake, but they have not explained why it is necessary to expound their doctrine solely from a worm's eye view of life. What one of the characters calls "the freemasonry of the urinal" will seem, to many readers, an accurate description of Sartre's own books...
...lately things had begun to go sour. The Flamingo lost money. From New York headquarters, the boys arrived to talk to Bugsy. A couple of hoods were cut down in the old '20s gangland style. Competition was increasing. The underworld was migrating eagerly into Southern California...