Word: sourly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Drop" the author finds an old man sitting corpselike in a wineshop, an untasted bottle before him, passively allowing the flies to attack a pimple on his forehead. It develops that for the old man the bottom has dropped out of everything. Gone sour are the immaterial wines of love, hope, desire. Sole remaining comfort, a drop of real grape, his family has denied him because it made him rowdy. Consolation he finds "by coming here and reminding myself that, while my sorrow is real enough now, all I should have to do would be to take a thimbleful...
...sour-faced Czechoslovak peasant last week galloped six excited gendarmes. "Did you see an old man on a horse ride down that way?" they shouted. "A tall old man with white hair...
...Sour and furtive Spinster Ella Lining suspected the relationship between Eleanor Steel and Mary Hewson; nobody else did. But Spinster Lining was right...
...vice president of the American Peace Society. When the World War came, he toured the country urging pacifism. In New Haven, Yale students hooted and jeered him. At the Baltimore Academy of Music in April 1917 he was almost mobbed by rioters who sang: ''Hang Dave Jordan on a Sour Apple Tree!" After the U. S. entered the War, however, he made no more speeches. And ten years after the Baltimore incident he received a letter from one Carter G. Osburn, who said he had led the Baltimore mob: "No apology is possible for such...
...gentlemen or even of scholars to try to win that favor by paying court to the sovereign person. Now that such advancement must come from the people, why should it be thought undignified for gentlemen or even for scholars to pay court to the sovereign people." It savors of sour grapes for educated men to despise public office. They know that they could not get elected nor could they deliver enough votes to get appointed by some one who has been elected to high office. With all their learning they have never learned the first essential of public service...