Word: souring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week William Crapo Durant had lost three fortunes, been twice ousted as president of General Motors, seen his Durant car fail, his art treasures auctioned. Yet he remained spry and bright-eyed, an oldtimer who had played a losing but gallant game. Then came a sour tagline to his riches-to-rags story: he was cited by Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace for a measly commodity fraud Secretary Wallace charged 77-year-old Willie Durant, his wife and various associates including the brokerage houses of Alexander Eisemann & Co. and H. W. Armstrong & Co. with "having cheated " and defrauded...
Rooters Claim No Sour Grapes...
...remind me of the opponents of the rail-roads in the 1830's: they too thought that this new invention was nothing but a curse, an evil contrived by the devil himself. They feared that the cows would give sour milk, that the hens would either not lay or else lay hard-boiled eggs. The same attitude prevailed when street-cars and trolleys came into widespread...
...Testy, sour-pussed General Francisco J. Múgica, onetime Minister of Communications and Public Works, is an ardent Leftist and widely regarded as the man who will wear the Cardenas silks in the race. He offered to hold a banquet for his two leading rivals, conservative General Manuel Avila Camacho, who resigned as Minister of National Defense, and moderate General Rafael Sánchez Tapia, resigned commander of the Federal Military Zone. The feast would show the country that the three could be political rivals and still good friends. Unfortunately, his opponents did not feel the same way about...
...those who braced themselves against you, and disputed the passage with you? Last week he published Disputed Passage (Houghton Mifflin, $2.50). As a personality pamphlet, it is a wow. As a novel, it is nothing much-no better nor worse than other Douglas books. Professor Tubby Forrester is so sour on life that it takes 432 pages for John Wesley Beaven, one of the nicest, cleanest, bravest medical students ever to flay a corpse, to convince the Professor that doctors must be gentle as well as skillful. John Wesley's own life is leavened by what Author Douglas calls...