Word: sourly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Traffic-in-Arms" conference, then the 1926-27 preparatory arms commission and finally the ill-starred 1927 conference on naval armaments, of which he was chairman. He has heard all the polite haggling of open and closed diplomacy. He has seen admirals and generals mix a sour brew of national honor, strategy and armament statistics. And he sums his observations thus...
...modest. He confines himself to vignettes. Sometimes they are smokily morbid, but the artist is more often impelled to bitter Hogarthian humor. As a regular contributor to the New Masses, he was (in the March issue) allowed to lampoon the staff of that earnest, proletarian monthly as a ridiculous, sour and impoverished quartet, weary of life and thought. O. Soglow is a signature frequently seen also in the blithely capitalistic New Yorker. There he is the Harpo Marx of art, maintaining a pungent silence with untitled comic strip exercises in pantomime, often verging on the vulgar. Recently the New Yorker...
...however, were awarded to work in fresh, distinctive modes. Robert Henri, bright, sketchy painter of children whose eyes would pop at dolls and toy engines, whose lips would pucker wetly at lollypops, won the Temple Gold Medal for painting with his fluffy, serious Wee Woman. A lean, angular and sour ancient in a dark figured dress, called Madame du Tarte, won for Richard Lahey the Carol Beck Medal for portraiture. Bruce Moore's Black Panther, in savage, undulating stride, won the George D. Widener Memorial Gold Medal for sculpture...
Something ought to be done about this. Even though bees do possess sour dispositions often scarcely compensated by their sweet production, it should be remembered that they are too ignorant, or too wise, to form protective unions, and, as insects, cannot appeal to the S. P. C. A. for justice. If the plans of the apiarist successfully culminate in more honey, it may not be of its pristine saccharinity, coming from discontented bees, and its lowered market value may be punishment enough to the owner. But if the bees grow class-conscious and revolt, making their presence felt as only...
Isaac ("Ike") Bacharach, smartly dressed, ruddy face, sour externally, pleasant internally, is a banking, realty and lumber tycoon of Atlantic City, N. J. A fine mixer and fixer, he is one of Speaker Longworth's closest friends. Much of the practical brains of the Ways & Means Committee (taxes, tariff) repose within his iron-grey head...