Word: souring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small pieces and put them in pan until they are golden brown. Add flour. Brown the meat in separate pan. then add to onions and flour. Add "stock." Stir in a small amount of strained tomatoes. Remove the meat from the pan. Strain the gravy. Thicken it with sour cream and flour. Pour this over meat and serve...
When commercial operators lost their airmail contracts, they warned Washington and the country that the Army, for all its fine spirit. was not equipped or trained to step into the breach (TIME, Feb. 19). Their words were airily swept aside as sour grapes. But last week a sense of shocked surprise ran through the land. Citizens began to wonder if, after all, the commercial operators were not right, if President Roosevelt was not wrong on his airmail policy. Newspaper editors wailed loudly that the toll of the Army's first week with the airmail was too high a price...
...would cost $2,000,000,000 a year, enough to wreck even his open-handed plans of U. S. financing. More over the free spending which made CWA so popular was bound to result in bigger scandals of the kind of which he was already getting his first sour taste...
Declared Civil Works Administrator Hopkins: "If putting 4,000,000 men to work puts me in the grapefruit business, I'm delighted to be in it. I learned the word baloney from Al and I suppose the term 'sour grapefruit juice...
...Pete.'' They climb in his window, bully his little daughter, argue drunkenly with him. When they propose to take him forcibly to apologize to the college president, he orders them out profanely. One lassoes him. The connotations of the rope and the song. "Hang him to a sour apple tree," suggest a lynching, get them half out the door with their man when the professor's wife appears in the doorway. In shuffling shame they drop their ropes, go mumbling away. When the authors finish with their hero, he is waiting to be hanged for an anti...