Word: sourly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governor Ritchie spoke chiefly in Dry districts to audiences whose grandfathers for the most part once sang lustily their intention of hanging Jefferson Davis (another famed state rights advocate) to a sour apple tree...
When students become uncontrollable the police have a perfect right to interfere but when the arm of the law strikes out unknowingly and unjustly the act assumes a sour aspect and deserves authoritative attention and immediate investigation. No police force can expect the cooperation of students when such uncalled for action is taken and we hope that episodes of this kind will not be repeated if mutual understanding between the undergraduates and the law is to prosper. Cornell Daily...
Combine Clara Bow, a sour moral, and "it" and you can only trust to luck Frank Strayer trusted--so this week finds "Rough House Rosie" sending thrills into the cerebral mud of local fandom at the Metropolitan...
...many showed any visible "sweetness and light". The slow moving procession looked exceedingly sour, very morbid. And yet over the head of each was a divine halo: his last major operation had been completed. Like the etherized victim of a surgeon's knife, each member of the English legion would soon send into the world of affairs the messagee, "resting successfully...
...Weepah, down near the slanting California lino (TIME, March 21), continued last week to swell and assume bright color. Blizzards and gales that swept Weepah tenters down the canon, did not cool the yellow metal fever. Nearby Tonopah, base camp for the skirmishers, buzzed with brokers, show girls, sour-doughs, eager tourists. Buying and selling of mine shares was fast and furious, all in cash. Claims changed hands. The biggest price...