Word: souring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scene: a heath near Lowell House. Enter Mr. Westcott with pail of sour cream followed by witches. Thunder and lightning...
...Sour milk, grisly meat, and bounceable eggs, mentioned in the Lowell report, are absolutely inexcusable and more than sufficient to spoil and otherwise edible meal. Other objections, of somewhat wider application, may be noted...
...interview was brief. Just four-and-one-half minutes after Ambassador Troyanovsky went in to hear the results of 14 months of negotiating, the Bolshevik marched out looking as if he had bitten into a very sour apple. Mr. Hull had said "No" to the proposition that the U. S. should give its shirt to Russia. Officially the Secretary of State announced...
...Exchange contracts. So the shorts caught in the squeeze defaulted, were ordered to liquidate their contracts with the long interests at 2.08? per lb. cash, which the Exchange claimed was the last spot quotation, plus a penalty of ¼?per lb. The longs complained that this was a sour settlement for them, that they should get more. Last week, while longs and shorts were bitterly criticizing each other and while the U. S. Senate was passing a resolution to investigate the squeeze, the Coffee & Sugar Exchange scolded both longs and shorts, suspended one sugar brokerage house from the Exchange...
...form telegram of congratulations sent out to successful Democratic candidates by Postmaster General Farley got a sour reception from Albert Cabell Ritchie of Maryland last week. Half an hour before the cheery Farley message arrived, Governor Ritchie had been told by his campaign manager that on the basis of late election returns he had no chance of a fifth successive term at Annapolis.* Victor by 5,000 votes was Republican Harry W. Nice, who capitalized on Governor Ritchie's unpopularity on the Eastern Shore following his anti-lynching stand last autumn (TIME...