Word: soured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five-and six-man combinations in which Armstrong has worked much of his life, he has had to earn that kind of praise-and without the carefully arranged six-and eight-horn brass choirs of the big bands to smother sour notes for him. Playing without written arrangements, bending the melody around on his own, then blending in with the others when the clarinet or trombone soars off on the lead, Louis has wrung raves even from longer-haired critics. The New York Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson once said that Louis' style of improvisation made...
...Governor Chen Cheng and Chen Yi, governor of Chiang's native Chekiang Province, were among a small group of officials who watched the Gimo's plane land. Following greetings, Chiang and his friends banqueted on fried shrimp, stuffed chicken and mandarin fish with sweet and sour sauce at Hangchow's famed Lou Wai Restaurant. Said one of the guests: "The Generalissimo seemed calm and relaxed-like one who has solved a great problem and is content...
...Born Yesterday's liberalism without its laughter. It was the sour success story of a Supreme Court justice turned from flaming crusader into conforming stuffed shirt. As the justice, Otto Kruger seemed neither alive nor dead enough; while Ruth Gordon's mannered playing of the wife merely suggested that the justice had married an actress...
Ingrid Bergman, who has credited her ruddy good health to a liking for "Baltic herrings and sour milk," got the kind of Christmas present that was obviously just what she wanted: a whole barrel of Baltic herrings, a gift from the Swedish fishery union...
...Prime Minister," Churchill rumbled, "where are the rifles which, on V-E day, armed 4,600,000 troops and Home Guards of this country alone? Are they in oil? ... There is no difficulty in keeping rifles. They do not go sour, like milk . . . What has happened to those latest models of tanks...