Word: sourest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...played his difficult part flawlessly and seemingly without effort. As the movement concluded, instrument after instrument dropped out until only the soloist and the strings remained playing. Primrose poised his bow for the last note and, with the impact of a siren in an empty subway station, produced the sourest note this writer has ever heard within Symphony Hall...
Virginia's Representative Howard Smith was sourest of all. "I came to Strasbourg to hear how European unity can be achieved," he said. "I have heard nothing except how it cannot be done." Moreover, commented Smith, "at the end of a journey through different European countries, you end up with all sorts of money and you can't even buy a cigar. There are too many passports, too many languages...
...that time, he became one of America's most brilliant journalists, sharpest wits and sourest cynics. His quarry was "conglomerate man . . . a tangled wad of rattlesnakes thawing and reeking in the Spring sunlight." Purdue University's Paul Fatout has uncoiled the tangled temperament of Cynic Bierce in a lively and readable new biography...
Next week is Brotherhood Week. This newspaper like others throughout the nation has received a request to help publicize the Week. Even Henry L. Mencken in one of his sourest moods could have found little reason to quarrel with its intent: "A rededication to the basic ideals of respect for people and human rights...