Word: sourly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...might suppose that such a Swiftian critique of the motion picture business springs from an attack of cinematic sour grapes on the part of either Mr. Hart or Mr. Kaufman, who makes his first stage appearance in the part of a disappointed author. Actually, neither man has ever been to Hollywood. But each has spent 30 min. in a studio at Astoria...
...glass, held it aloft and recited as the Club had specified long ago: The camp fire smoulders-ashes jail; The clouds are black athwart the sky; No tap of drums, no bugle call; My comrades, all, Goodbye! He sipped the wine, set down his glass. The Burgundy had turned sour. Mused Last Man Lockwood: "We should have saved ourselves a bottle of old Irish whiskey instead. It would have been nice and oily...
Leon Trotsky, exiled to Turkey two years ago by Dictator Josef Stalin, hurled a figurative bunch of sour grapes last week in Moscow's direction...
...still relentless as noon approached and passed. Suddenly Mr. Churchill challenged on a minor issue, demanded a division (vote). In this emergency no tellers could be found. They had sneaked out to lunch. Triumphantly Snowden-baiter Churchill moved adjournment in this "emergency" and the Chancellor was forced to yield, sour-faced. As he left the Government Bench, triumphant Winnie Churchill shouted mockingly: "Snowden, you have met your Waterloo...
Warmly, without a trace of sour grapes or jealousy, Grocer Habsburg goes on to praise the self made Tea Tycoon: "Just how his personality could break down all barriers was shown at a dinner party, given during Kiel Regatta shortly before the great war by Kaiser Wilhelm II, aboard his imperial yacht to Sir Thomas Lipton and Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan. The Kaiser was in a bad humor and inclined to be coldly polite. Mr. Morgan, sensing the frigidity, became frigid too. But not so the genial Sir Thomas! His joviality and high spirits soon thawed everything and everybody, most...