Word: sourly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sour Grape. The Spanish expression of pique, chagrin and defiance consisted in the recall to Madrid of Count Quinones de Leon, whose place upon the League Council was taken by one Don Luis Quer Boule, a mere youth, an underling culled from the Spanish Legation at Berne...
Having deposited this diplomatic sour grape upon the Council board. Foreign Minister Yanguas of Spain cabled to the abashed young man instructions that he read to the Council a vague and technical intimation* that Spain may eventually withdraw from the League if not granted a permanent Council seat...
...Ernest Elmo Calkins, the advertising agency business has been characterized by the highest ideals of professional practice. The Batten advertisement will be condemned by the great majority as an egregious breach of professional practice. To say the least, the advertisement is in extremely bad taste. It smacks of "sour grapes...
...easily good enough for this inconspicuous little crook play. Miss Johnstone plays the fiancee of a young man with a prison record. Practically the entire remainder of the cast is bent upon hurling him back to the gaol. A diamond necklace is stolen and things look pretty sour for him. But he picks the very necklace out of the chief detective's pocket just in time for the final happy curtain...
...dropped ? (See SCIENCE) . 12) After what U. S. Admiral would it be stupid to christen a safety razor? (See Music.) 13) What is the real reason the University of London has not been quick to accept the gift of the City of London? (See EDUCATION.) 14) Define an Alaskan "sour-dough." (See AERONAUTICS.) 15) The I. C. C. has set a certain "fair" mark (percentage) for earnings on its own valuation of the property values of Class I railroads. What percentage? (See BUSINESS...