Word: soured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...publisher's natural for Christmas or any other season, this collection includes all the more favorable things that some 125 writers of prose and verse have had to say about mothers. It is jacketed, as inevitably as baldness, with Whistler's sour old dam. Considering its subject and its editor, The Mothers' Anthology will doubtless become a household classic. Most of its readers will probably be mothers, and they will have every reason to enjoy themselves. For non-mothers, the book has interest too. Representing some of the world's greatest writers and some...
...Sour-faced Premier General Ion ('"Red Dog") Antonescu and Vice Premier and Iron Guard Leader Horia Sima spoke of "severe measures" to punish the extremist Green Shirts, but their words were scarcely in print when blood lust rushed through the whole disaster-sickened country. Onetime Premier Professor Nicolas lorga, tutor of King Carol and eminent historian, "the teacher of the nation," was found dead on the outskirts of the oil fields near his country home at Valeni-de-Munte. George Bratianu, scion of the dynasty which secured Rumania its independence, kept it going through World War I, was reported...
...Mary's College, 30 years ago, Joe Engel pitched a perfect (no-man-to-reach-first) baseball game. Grabbed by the Washington Senators, his pitching went sour. Manager Clark Griffith shooed Engel off to the minor-league Minneapolis Millers, told him to swap himself for someone who could play ball. Engel looked the Millers over, sent back Ed Gharrity, a big rawboned catcher. Gharrity turned out to be so good that Engel was hired to scout for Washington...
...only sour note marring the clean cut 10 to 0 win over the Bruins was the leg injury sustained by Loren MacKinney, the versatile Tar Heel who has been dividing his time between left end and blocking back. Doctors have not definitely ruled him out of the Yale game, but he is hobbling around on crutches with a bad right knee as a result of the tumble he took in the third period after leaping high in the air to intercept a Brown pass...
...Brought in out of the rain was thin-faced, properly cravated Viscount Cranborne, Anthony Eden's "Foreign Office twin" whose loyalty was at last rewarded when he was named to Lord Caldecote's vacated post as Dominions' Secretary. Sir John Reith, having done little but look sour and unapproachable as Minister of Information and then as Minister of Transport, was tossed a baronetage and for equally inexplicable reasons named to a new post as Minister of Works and Public Buildings, charged with the eventual rebuilding of London. In as new Minister of Transport went sporty Lieut. Colonel...