Word: souring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fine old whiskey which belonged to people who had bought the warehouse receipts. He sold some of the subsidiaries, paid off $11,000,000 of debts, bought back most of his whiskey. But around his clubs when asked about his whiskey business, Seton Porter usually made a sour face, and did a quiet but extraordinarily able job of corporate management...
Despite the fact that "All Good Americans" goes very sour in creating a lot of hackneyed characters whose Third Avenue realism and happy-go-lucky American hearts of gold have long since been outlined even from the movies, the good American types are nevertheless all real people; and even if you have seen them many times before, it is not painful to see them again, especially if they don't take themselves seriously, as they don't at the Plymouth...
...simple a reform as the realignment of the municipal bureaucracy, to which Major LaGuardia is pledged, will sour the patronage list and antagonize the Republican machine. The illuminati will support it, but an examination of Mr. Walter Fisher's Chicago reform league would indicate that even an organized elite is extremely prone to diffusion, so that it is not a very significant help in a political struggle, where a pachydermatous hide is the greatest single asset, and where means must sometimes yield to ends...
...moks, perceived that vital contradiction which imperilled the economic organism in which their own success was hatched. Over seven years ago, when Henry Ford manufactured his ten millionth motor car, and the moguls of efficiency were prostrate in self gratulation, he ventured to inject a single sour note. His remark was commonplace enough, considered in the light of our own days, but in 1926 it had an alien and an unfriendly sound. What would happen when the market had been glutted by his ever more efficient production, when the only people devoid of a Ford tonneau were the people devoid...
...enhancement of the political power of Russia will hinder the execution of her designs upon the railroads of southern Siberia. In the event, moreover, of a possible Russo-American coalition, she would be caught in a pair of giant scissors, and could only sit back and make a sour face...