Word: soured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rumor of the nasty affair came first to the CRIMSON and from there spread to amazed and unsuspecting Bellboys. Asked for a comment on the unhappy "fait accompli" Joseph P. Lyford '41, chairman of the House committee, commented: "Sour grapes and infants! Everything happens...
Particularly enraging to President Arnulfo Arias was Scott's sour comment on the present Panamanian regime in his daily column, "Interesting if True," and Scott's viewing-with-alarm in cables to Reuter's and United Press. In November Scott was warned that his dispatches were "tendentious." He continued column and cables, noting "reforms" that gave the President a longer term and power to expropriate foreign-owned property...
...veteran laddies. Things go steadily wrong for two reels, and then Bobby runs true to form by saving the commander, proving the new landing-in-fog invention, and clearing his name of an ugly connection with the commander's wife--all in one breath-taking flight. The only sour note is that they wash out first-line fighting planes faster than we're building them. But Ruth Hussey has played with the one and only Taylor and will have her memories; there were a lot a good angles on diving Grumann lighters to inspire America's youth...
...Governor's guests ate 15 steers, one buffalo, several calves and sheep (in all 17,000 lb. of dressed meat) and 12,800 wieners. They also downed 3,200 loaves of bread, 6,500 buns, 1,250 lb. of onions, half a ton of potato chips, 6,000 sour pickles, 500 Ib. of cheese. The lemonade alone took 2,000 dozen lemons; and 900 gallons of coffee went down Texas gullets...
...demanded violence. "This war has assumed all the characteristics of a political and social revolution," wrote Popolo di Roma, proposing "some beatings-up" for those who read the French-language Swiss press. "These are the prophets of disaster, the professional alarmists, the convinced pessimists, the empty brains and the sour stomachs who still exist among us here and there." Referring to Benito Mussolini's recent order to jettison "the remaining petty bourgeois ballast," Popolo di Roma suggested that nothing remained but to begin...