Word: sourly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...book is many-sided, disinterested, clinical. The photographs are uncaptioned yet arranged to be looked at in order. In each the camera has caught the essential moment, memorized in detail some significant things: the early morning light on hundreds of back yards in an industrial city; four sour people on a Bronx bench on Sunday; a pompous Legionnaire with waxed mustaches, looking brave...
Since this was a wedding reception, Sistie and Buzzie got a taste of champagne. They didn't seem much impressed with the sour stuff...
...picture for double features because of its length (106 min.), it should persuade even cinemaddicts who are sour on newsreels that they would do well to give Graham McNamee one more chance. Good shot: picture within a picture, when Miss Loy sees the newsreel Clark Gable has pretended to destroy, at a Manhattan preview...
...Secretary Achille Starace of the Fascist Party decreed that all party flags must be made from "this product of Italian ingenuity" a textile fabric called Lanital, invented in 1935 and introduced in the U. S. last winter (TIME, Dec. 6). Basis of Lanital is casein, the thick substance in sour, skimmed milk from which cottage cheese is made. Last week the U. S. Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Dairy Industry applied for a public-service patent on a somewhat similar process for turning casein into synthetic wool...
...Wyeth, part real-estate ad, part history, part guide book, all of it unadulterated Mainiac bragging, Trending Into Maine aims belligerently at these main points: 1) that "there are no better people anywhere in the world" than State-of-Mainers, 2) that writers who call Maine natives "dour, sour, cautious, calculating yokels," are dirty liars, and 3) that Maine voters are still the true defenders of liberty, and to hell with Roosevelt...