Word: souring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the joke turned sour. After her microphone partner and husband, George Burns, pleaded guilty in Manhattan to two Federal indictments for smuggling (TIME, Dec. 19), with the case still pending, he flew to Hollywood to ready their radio program. Last Friday they took to the air. Gracie prattled gaily about her fictional family, but on their criminal careers and residences in jail, as well as on the troubles of her real family, she was mumchance...
...week Otto Peretz Schwarzschild, who bought the business in 1930, brought the guide up to date. Listed were 5,500 such extinct securities as those of Amethyst Mining Co., Kowkash Holdings, Ltd., Unique Operating Co. Announced Mr. Schwarzschild: "While the activities of the SEC have curtailed the output of sour securities, it will be a long time before the obsolete security business faces extinction...
While the audience overflowed Paine Hall last night, the Pierian Sodality and the Radcliffe Choral Society gave a varied program of works ranging all the way from Weelkes to Hindemith. Demanding so much skill from the individual players, the orchestra sounded sour at times and showed a little disorganization in its first and most difficult concert of the season. Specifically, the Concerto Grosso in B minor was not marvelous...
Automobile manufacturers, among the chief victims of Depression II, last week were so agog over good omens for the Auto Show (see p. 71) that sour earnings fazed them not a whit...
...articles on smoking, in the current issue of Scribner's, Mr. Furnas offers several anti-smoking aids for what they are worth. Samples: 1) wash out the mouth with a weak solution of silver nitrate which "makes a smoke taste as if it had been cured in sour milk"; 2) chew candied ginger, gentian, or camomile; 3) to occupy the hands smoke a prop cigaret...