Word: sourly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Ernie Foot and his fatally beautiful wife Irene were gathered into the bunch, a sour note came into this close harmony. Irene was discontented, thought Ernie spent too much time looking at himself in the glass, not enough money on her clothes. But the Lorenzo husbands were too olive-oily for her taste; she wanted gamier game. Enter big society man, complete with roadster and fatuous expression; exit Irene. Meantime Husband Ernie had been taken up by the society man's wife, who had personality and an itch for Art. When the showdown came, with a double divorce...
...friend of the court" Solicitor Reed appeared on behalf of the Government to defend the Bankhead Act. He told the Court that its prerogative to declare a law unconstitutional should not be exercised except with the utmost care and for the gravest reasons. Very sour indeed were the faces of the Justices at being thus instructed in their duties. As a reason for the Court's not passing on the validity of the law, he advanced the argument that the Moor case was a "non- adversary proceeding; that is, a collusive suit between the plaintiff and the defendants...
...Vagabond's journey this morning takes us back some hundred and seventeen years. James Fenimore Cooper is about thirty years sour on life; and no less pugnacious and determined than fifteen years ago, when he was gently booted out of Yale for insubordination. But that's all back of him now; as well as his career on a merchant vessel seeing Europe for the first time and later as a midshipman in the United States navy...
...miles in 1935; to 70 miles in 1934. ¶ United Carbon Co. opened three new carbon black plants, had two more under construction, planned to increase carbon black capacity from 385,000 lb. a day to 485,000 lb. a day. Carbon black is produced by burning a "sour" natural gas that is no good for lighting or heating. Tiremakers take 75% of the output; 15% goes into inks; the remainder is used in rubber heels, shoe polish, paint, other products. ¶ By Nov. 1 the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. had made 7,381 teletypewriter installations, compared...
When a man's life and sport are ruled by dogmatic hunting conventionalities to the extent of influencing his choice of automotive fuels, it would seem that the "plain gasoline" he uses might have been blended with sour grapes...