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...steaming of Australia. Since it was common knowledge that this concentration had been based on Truk since approximately 1936, and since Mr. Knox's statement obviously referred to a putative concentration of troopships for an immediate invasion, the Army spokesman's comment was the week's sourest note...
Harvard's basketeers ended their 1943 season on the sourest not possible Saturday night, falling to an inept Yale quinet 44 to 43 at the Indoor Athletic Building in what was undoubtedly the worst Ivy League game of the season, if not of many seasons...
Bartók: his suite from the opera Háry János, depicting the exploits of a mythical Magyar hero, became a concert favorite. Bartók's mature music suggested his homeland only by a tricky complex of rhythms, dressed up in some of the sourest dissonances ever devised...
...Sourest of Germans on Joy Day were group leaders of the ordinary S. A. Storm Troops, long since fallen from the Führer's favor. They now seem destined to brownshirt oblivion as a new Nazi Army bursts out into field grey under Reichswehr officers of War renown (see p. 23). Last week smart Adolf Hitler, when he decided to make the Great News, first ordered S. A. Storm Troop leaders to hurry from all parts of the Fatherland to the town in which he knew they could make least trouble. Oberammergau. There, after the news broke, passion...
...agile than ever. It teeters, like a clown on stacked tables, atop absurdities whose sickening crash never comes. It rides the handlebars of logic backwards, reaching its points with convulsing speed and accuracy. It convinces you that Funnyman Wodehouse must be the world's most amusing conversationalist or its sourest nervous wreck...