Word: soured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dick Sharrock. Best man was Tom B. Robinson, and master of ceremonies Frank Samone at the reception held at the Fox and Hounds Club afterwards. Using Lieutenant Towne's sword on the wedding cake, Mrs. Shepherd served a punch, described by our Harry Magnuson as a hybrid whisky sour and champagne cocktail. Only Tom (T. S.) Smith kept his head after some ten or so toasts. A gala affair. Much happiness to them...
Wonderful, Epoch-Making. Britons were delighted. The press greeted the plan with a roar of approval, pushed the war off the front pages to make room for it. The Times hailed it as "an epoch-making document," the Daily Express as "a wonderful scheme." Only sour note came from the 5,700 approved benefit societies and from the industrial-insurance companies whose activities will be curtailed, if not abolished, by the plan. Said a spokesman: "We shall fight...
What Price Unity? In proletarian Paris the people dine on soup, macaroni, maybe a little bread and sour wine. But among Communist leaders there is confidence in approaching victory. The Communist Party is the only party which is well organized, and has a program. It is growing...
That "Hell of a Beating." In a sweet-&-sour mood last week, Stilwell recalled the "hell of a beating" taken by the Allies in Burma in 1942, and noted similarities in this campaign-"but in exact reverse." Equipment captured intact by the Japs two years ago was recaptured intact and again put to use by its original owners...
...likely to outrage rather than amuse most moviegoers. Barry Fitzgerald contributes a brief but telling bit as a richly impertinent, elfish little cable-car gripman (conductor). But despite his efforts, this idyll of young love resembles not so much a spring freshet as a saucer of milk left to sour by an ungrateful...