Word: soured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sour-grapes Private Dawn Van Horn's letter of criticism of the Tysons' $40,000 debut [TIME, Oct. 1], something should be said: 1) the whole letter glows green with envy; 2) the old principle of live & let live is still a good one; 3) it seems doubtful she's as much worried about the needs of "a thousand American girls" as she is about her getting the Van Horn hands on "a fur coat and a swell watch"; 4) someone should tell Private Van Horn what part intolerance played in starting the war she was just...
...Princess Lamarr had a brain in her head she would realize that the poor boy is head over heels in love with her, and have a little pity-or some feasible substitute. But she is too much absorbed in whether Warner Anderson, a rather sour-eyed journalist she once knew abroad, still loves her, and she crudely exploits the bellhop's affections in order to get another interview with the reporter. This begins to be really painful when Mr. Walker courts her in a hired dress suit, under the impression that she wants to make him her prince consort...
...Strauss Goes to Boston (music by Robert Stolz & Johann Strauss Jr.; lyrics by Robert Sour; book by Leonard L. Levinson; produced by Felix Brentano) opened Broadway's 1945-46 season without letting in much fresh air. An operetta about Johann Strauss (George Rigaud) headlining the great Boston Jubilee of 1872 and breaking hearts on Beacon Hill, it muffs the three real opportunities provided by the story. Far from conveying any of the devilish Strauss charm it babbles about, the book doesn't even billow with good lush operetta sentiment; it is just crushingly dull...
Later they recorded three more sides: the mood, Pastiche, a violent Rimsky-Korsakov; the two "jumpers," Double Doghouse (using two bass fiddles instead of one) and A Slight Case of the Shakes, Brick's version of a hangover. "Not a clinker" (sour note), said the maestro happily...
Wednesday, Rank journeyed out to M.G.M. to have chicken sour with M.G.M.'s Mayer. (Even when M.G.M. production has been off, Mayer's chicken sour has maintained a uniformly high quality.) Gently, Mayer probed at the reason for Rank's visit. Gently, Rank turned the talk back to horse racing...