Word: sourly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said the plan would test the good faith of the Geneva Conference. Senator Reed, military affairs committee chairman, hoped it would be accepted. Senator King found it had "some merit." In Paris General Pershing called it "fair and just ... a concrete and statesmanlike plan which should receive immediate approval." Sour notes were struck by Tennessee's Senator McKellar ("Nonsense") and Mississippi's Representative Collins ("Silly"). The U. S. Press generally acclaimed it as able." "timely and bold," "sensible," "irrefutable" ¶To find a successor to Charles Gates Dawes on the board of Reconstruction Finance Corp., President Hoover last...
...Haskins exposed grapefruit, orange, aster and cotton seeds to x-rays from two to 16 minutes. The grapefruit blossomed five weeks after planting. In nature first blossoming re quires five years' growth. On the contrary, sweet orange seed grew into a twisted, two-leaf plant. As grotesque was a sour orange plant with no green chlorophyll in its stem or leaves. The aster and cotton plants were gnarled dwarfs...
Marlene Dietrich is a heroine of the contemporary order, a "coaster" (poule de luxe) of the Chinese shoreline. The other characters are a group of the ill-assorted personages customarily assembled for "one location" stories-a sour-tongued missionary, an old lady with a lapdog, a U. S. gambler, a German opium dealer who seems to suffer from chilblains, an oriental trollop, a half-breed Chinese named Henry Chang, a British Army surgeon with an Addisonian turn of speech. In the up-to-date habit of Transatlantic, Union Depot and Grand Hotel, they are all inhabiting a train of luxurious...
...position carefully planned to create an effect of maximum beauty. That meant nothing to the forthright five; they smashed them all: Theta Chi's lovely Snow Girl, the majestic statue of Elcazar on the Green, and all the rest. It seems so childish, and so utterly unnecessary; a small, sour-souled thing...
...Luxembourg Gardens, once the gardens of sour-faced Marie de' Medici, do not belong to the City of Paris, but to the State. It is the duty of the Senate, which meets in Marie's palace, to decide whether pink or orange dahlias shall be planted in the garden beds, who shall sell gaufres (waffles) and lemonade, and whether or not the renter of toy boats shall be provided with a burglarproof shed.* A month ago, therefore, contestants for the Guignol concession, vacant since M. Brioché's death, were solemnly called before...