Word: sourly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front page. Pressagent Schaeffer, horribly embarrassed, hurriedly denied that Chicago's biggest department store would make any such changes. He said that Mr. Margeson, bitter about being forced out of Field's, had written and released his own resignation statement. Explained Pressagent Schaeffer: "Sour grapes...
...speak of has fire insurance, tornado insurance, and life insurance on the lives of the principal officials. His largest cash outlay (in a good many plants) is for labor. Is he justified in hiring one of us to make certain that his labor machine doesn't go sour? I'll not pretend to answer. I'm retired and don't give a damn...
...there was any small, sour group of delegates who disliked Moscow's biggest party, awful warning not to spoil it had been given them, and by Joseph Stalin. In a speech the chief parts of which did not come through the censorship but whose text was printed and reprinted in Soviet papers, the Dictator said of the men and women up for election to Russia's new Parliament: "I cannot say with assurance that their ranks are free ... of such men whom the Russian proverb describes as 'neither God's candle, nor Devil's broom...
...exhibition of how sour a tricky attack can look when it is not working was put on in the Dartmouth game. The Green line just wouldn't be trapped and was strong enough to work a cup defense, charging in a few feet and then holding their ground. It was just under those circumstances that the deceptive end and off-tackle runs should have worked, but the Dartmouth flanks were also apparently pretty smart fellows and so the Crimson attack looked impotent...
Regarding leadership of these boys, why invoke the "authorities"? The disastrous results are immediate. Footballs are stolen, cars are looted, Dunster House suffers, students are heckled in the streets, and even the Yard rings to the yells of boys belligerently flying the flag of sour grapes. Rather than wait for action from the University in outfitting their vacant lots, why not act ourselves? Phillips Brooks House is not overtaxed. In Cambridge settlement houses Harvard men can do a world of good, if only to themselves. Since it is the student body that suffers from these potential criminals, students...