Word: souring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yale Courant," in defending Yale against the attacks of the "Nassau Misc" which finds fault with the excessive sandiness of the Yale football game, delivers itself of the following: "Sand is no doubt disagreeable to certain individuals, but it is entirely preferable to the concoction of mud, cowardice, and sour grapes which the organs of Princeton, Harvard and their New York satellites make a point of aiming at Yale after every Thanksgiving game...
...also holy. Yes, I know how it smells and sticks, and how your shoes look around a dairy barn. I know the smart of a cow's tail swished in your eye on a hot summer night, and the sound of greedy hogs in a trough of sour milk. . . . I know the unholy feel of the business at the bottom. Still, we must insist that anything as essential to human life as milk is holy...
...event there will always be the feeling that Professor Sprague's lectures may be tinged with the odor of sour grapes and that the emphasis of his remarks, however timely, pertinent and penetrating will reflect the disappointment of the man who was forgotten by the advocate of the "forgotten man." It is likely to develop into a course in the value of a "sound currency" rather than an unbiased appreciation of monetary policies and problems...
Sure enough, Evening won. But the joy of his thousands of backers turned sour as Bolsheviks learned what happens in pari-mutuels when a favorite wins. After the State had taken its fat percentage there was just enough left to return to each better on Evening exactly the sum he had bet. Only real winners were the Soviet stables which entered the four leading horses. Among them the State divided a purse of 30,000 rubles, part to be used in paying bonuses to drivers, trainers and stable boys of the winning mounts. Evening's driver, called "Citizen Pianov...
Slogan of N. R. D. for S. S. T.: "A sweet note in a sour time...