Word: souring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent announcement of Belgium's opposition to "defensive treaties" and King Leopold's strict neutrality speech, have left France with a rather sour taste in her mouth. The final blow to "collective security" and other such methods designed to freeze the "status quo" in Europe has been delivered courageously by Brussels in no uncertain manner. The Belgians have no wish to be drawn into a future world war through defensive pacts or entangling alliances, which they consider are as detrimental to their own welfare as to the peace of Europe...
LOST MORNING-Du Bose Heyward- Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Skillfully-constructed, smoothly-written novel about an artist whose success turns sour under the pressure of difficulties with his wife, his daughter, the small fashionable Southern city where he lives...
...sour hint marred any of the reports delivered to the Mother Church meeting. According to these, some 150,000 "friendly and constructive" news items relating to Christian Science were published during the past year. Some 3,000,000 people all over the world heard 3,111 Christian Science lectures. Twenty-two new "societies" were founded, one of them by natives in remote mountains of the Philippine Islands. Circulation of the famed Christian Science Monitor (daily) advanced from 129,000 to 146,000, a new high. Indebtedness for remodeling the old Christian Science Publishing House as an administration building was paid...
...Queen, looking very sour for such a sunny spring morning, came trundling across the lawn and stopped under the peach-tree, scowling down at Alice. She looked at the little green book in the grass and snorted, "Child, what trash are you reading...
...were usually maidens in their middle teens. Physically they always seemed well-nourished. Their skin, however, had a greenish-yellow tinge, especially in brunettes. There was a bluish cast to the whites of their eyes. Such chlorotic girls constantly complained of being tired. They had capricious appetites, often preferred sour things like pickles...