Word: sourly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most Italian reporters seem to fit into the bargain the Dictator offers them: "You eulogize my Dictatorship and I protect your jobs." As to foreign correspondents, the longer they remain in Rome the more they lose their impartiality. Some turn sour and smuggle out whatever they can smell against Fascism. Others settle down sweetly to write as if on the staff of a supereditor who happens to be directing not only all the newsorgans of Italy but all Italy...
...sense of taste is a chemical reaction which occurs in the minute tulip-shaped clusters of cells scattered thinly and irregularly over the tongue. There are a few "taste buds" elsewhere in the mouth, some even on the tonsils. Each bud distinguishes one of four tastes: sour, sweet, bitter, salt. Babies are born fully outfitted with taste buds-about...
...then rose President William Mather Lewis of Lafayette College to speak on ''The Contribution of the Secondary School to a Better Social Order." To some, this seemed a sour subject to bring up in the presence of the headmaster of a school so closely identified with the existing social order. Fears were set at rest when President Lewis began listing the evils of secondary education: "The use of correct, trenchant and beautiful English among the graduates of our secondary schools is so rare as to attract surprised attention. Manners are poor, the courtesies of an early...
Since Premier Bennett has for years been more alert to Communist preparations for the World Revolution of the World Proletariat than any other North American statesman, Canadian voters know that the Comintern of Moscow is not that funny kind of Russian cabbage soup with sour cream in it. Exceptionally enlightened as to Communists, Canadians were offered a chance to elect Red M. P.'s last week by Incendiary Tim Buck who rushes about trying to win workmen's votes by showing them cablegrams of encouragement received from the World Communist Party Congress in Moscow (TIME, July...
...much sour treacle...