Word: soured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keynoter at a national convention is the man who makes the opening speech. His job is to blow a fanfare loud enough to drown out all the sour notes. The man the Republican National Committee picked last week as keynoter for the Philadelphia Convention was 220-lb., 6-ft. 3 in. Governor Harold Edward Stassen of Minnesota. He had one pre-eminent qualification for the job: he was not a Presidential candidate. Only 33 (35 is the minimum for President), he is not old enough...
Neither Martin's nor Stassen's job promised to be a sinecure. Even as the committee met last week in Philadelphia, Republicans in the East, like an orchestra whose members were all reading from different scores, raised a cacophonous din. Sour was the note from Maryland, where Robert Alphonso Taft withdrew in pique before the rambunctious invasion of Tom Dewey. Liberal Republicans in the East, to whom the name of Pennsylvania Boss Joseph N. Pew Jr. is pure onomatopoeia, made beckoning sounds to a strayed Democrat, Wendell Willkie...
...Breathitt's 21,600 inhabitants, 15,000 are on relief. Only 700 have WPA jobs, and that number is about to be cut. Mostly Breathitt reliefers live on insufficient Federal surplus commodities (corn grits, flour, lima beans, lard, prunes, raisins, apples in a good month; little but grapefruit-"sour oranges"-in bad months...
During Depression, Europe went sour. At the end of 1931, Radiator still had cash of $20,061,000, $2,244,000 more than its funded debt plus current liabilities. Next year, with business collapsing, the company took an $18,568,000 charge-off against its $68,770,779 accumulated surplus...
...thoughtful, that about half his characters are themselves straight out of stock, and that as a novel the education of Bethel Merriday is neither so close-knit nor so serious in import as was that of Martin Arrowsmith. But the reader must likewise note that this is not the sour and rickety work of an old self-imitator but a buoyant tale with neither claims nor pretensions to being a profound work...