Word: souring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taught Donald to bite walls and people, and to peek under doors. Gua's many teeth were blunt and so hurt less than Donald's few. Gua hated perfume and asafetida; Donald liked perfume. Both reacted similarly to sweet, salty and bitter substances. Gua, however, liked sour things. Gua was more ticklish than Donald, frequently tickled herself for pleasure. Gua was first to recognize herself in a mirror, first to show interest in the pictures in a book...
...many firms such a profit is not enough over a period of years to pay for the much greater losses which are sure to come sometime when an issue goes sour. Morgan & Co.'s net profits on bonds are due to having fewer losses than most houses. In the last 14 years, Morgan & Co. has headed syndicates which distributed $6,000,000,000 worth of bonds. Of these $2,000,000,000 have already been repaid. Forty percent of all their foreign bonds have been repaid. Of the balance 30% were selling, last week, above the offering price. Only...
...magazine writers and "tipsters." Instead of barring the supernumeraries, Mr. Hoover simply talked with restraint. Later when the Press became critical of his official acts there grew a mutual distrust. Acutely sensitive to criticism, the President decided the Press was hostile. In turn the Press decided the President was sour, evasive. He began to ignore written questions, eventually practically abandoned press conferences...
Brightest bit of testimony came from Hearst's star witness, the egg-throwing Mrs. Ward. Under cross-examination by Lawyer John William Guider she admitted referring to Griffith as "lacto bacillus acidopholus-because he would sour the milk of human kindness"; and as a "dirty rotten turtle egg" because someone had told her that was the Chinese expression of supreme contempt...
...would be revealing, if hardly fair, to report that one of Authoress Jameson's favorite words is "sour." But so many successful authors deal in soft soap that it is scarcely surprising if less acclaimed but equally competent competitors take to acid. The three long short stories in Women Against Men are potent comments on a moot question: Is a hard world harder for women than for men? ¶Narrator of the first story' is Fanny, a shy, embittered woman whose career (she is a writer) is overshadowed by the much flashier success of an old girlhood friend...