Word: soured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...universally cheapened in the cannonball these days that an accurate performance is become a curiosity. Conductors think that to interpret Tchaikowski means whipping themselves up into a fine poetic frenzy, and loading the music with trite sentimentality. As a result it has sounded cheap and sugar-coated, has rung sour on men's ears, and turned them to music less easily perverted by a conductor's bad taste. It is all very well to invoke the old formulate and say that Tchaikowski wrung sublimity from an anguished soul. But if for no other reason than this must his music...
Into the midtown back rooms and side-door polling places (Pine and Hicks and Camac and Panama Streets) went G. 0. P. workers with sour faces, empty pockets. For the first time in many a heeler's memory not one dollar had come from headquarters to pay the watchers & "workers" at the polls. Even the sample ballots had not been paid for; one ward leader had to meet a $117 printing bill himself...
Nettled Professor Keynes sour-graped: "It is a cowardly budget and therefore it's popular...
...Chicago trip--and it was finally called off--kept a goodly number of the other hundred band members in the organization this year. From any viewpoint, the Band pays high for the privilege of playing, and the dollar marks mixed in with the notes are bringing out some sour music...
...boys are beginning to feel that they're not getting a square deal. But financial arrangements for next season must be made soon, and the band hesitates to speak up. A threat of a hold-out next year would stir up the turgid H.A.A. And some good, long, sour notes would shift the band's expenses from Johhny's term bill to where they belong--among the rest of the H.A.A. disbursements...