Word: soured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the accounts bore the glaze of battle, the slightly romantic touch of excited and hurried newsmen. An ancient Norman, dozing in his house, was nearer the earthy truth of France. A correspondent asked him what the people thought of De Gaulle. The old man, authentically sour, growled that Normans cared more about the price of pigs...
...part-time conductor of the NBC Symphony. Behind the blow that knocked British-born, Irish-Pole Stokowski over Radio City's ropes was the fine Italian fist of his onetime pal, spry, bantamweight Arturo Toscanini, 77. The blow was the culmination of a friendship that has gone sour. Few maestros have held each other in such avowed mutual respect as did Toscanini and Stokowski in the '303. A frequent attendant at Toscanini's rehearsals, concerts and broadcasts, Stokowski publicly expressed his tremendous admiration for Toscanini. Toscanini, who seldom in his life has had a good word...
Cropped. In Murphysboro, Ill., an optimistic barber overheard Farmers Bill and Arthur Guetterslau complaining about their sour luck, promptly traded a haircut and a shave for 150 acres of flooded wheat...
Some Live on Nettles. The staple food in most districts is dried corn served as a gruel (skrob), with sour milk and potatoes on the side. In part of Montenegro and Bosnia famine is chronic; thousands of people live on nettles. But they live, and they fight. Men and beasts alike are always hungry for salt. A peasant will offer 9 lb. of corn for 2 lb. of salt, or a goat and kid for 11 lb. of salt. This spring, as every spring, wheat and vegetables have been sowed, but the peasants remember the German way of marching...
...icewater was Seven Days Ashore (RKO-Radio), which detailed the embarrassing simultaneous involvements of a merchant mariner (Gordon Oliver) with three girls. It was spiked by the presence of swart Comic Alan Carney, and there was a fine moment when haughty Margaret Dumont shattered a cocktail glass with a sour note in her rendition of Over the Waves. But the film is best summed up in one critic's quip: "Seven days can be a long time...