Word: sourly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been excluded from the Recovery program, that his situation has become and is becoming worse through the growing disparity between agricultural and industrial prices. Even as popular a man as Mr. Roosevelt may have been not a little worried over the prospect of these good votes going sour...
...economic nationalist, clashed with internationalist Secretary Hull before, during and after the World Economic Conference, to which Moley's visit as the President's "messenger boy" was pompously over publicized. Back in the U. S. Dr. Moley discovered that his conspicuousness had produced a sour public effect. No longer was he welcomed at the President's bedside before breakfast. The spotlight had shifted to General Johnson and NRA, leaving Dr. Moley no more important as an active adviser than a dozen other sub-Cabinet officials. When Secretary Hull got back from London all primed to resign, President...
...back to him and the story leaves him making political capital out of his vulgar, underbred mick of a son by his first wife (a loyal little shop girl). Author Bronson handles the return of Junior Green & wife like a straight-harmony writer, reintroducing the original theme to shade, sour and yet enrich the final chord. More, he makes the bareness of his story, the concavity of his omissions, act as a sounding board for the overtone of irony...
Alabama broke the tradition of a solid Dry South by going 3-to-2 for Repeal. A sour political note was struck by Judge Oliver Day Street, Alabama's Republican national committeeman. who told his slim following: "If Repeal is a Democratic measure and if President Roosevelt desires it, this should be sufficient proof that it is no Republican measure and no Republican has any business voting...
...like fooling, and his prize goes back to her white engineer. With a price on his head Jamil returns to Cairo and just as Diana is about to become leashed forever to her beloved bridge-builder, she hears one of Jamil's Arab love songs which are pretty sour. She can't resist, and so she's off. The picture's like that...