Word: sourly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Granted, Poet Donald Hall has some noble lines to his credit; TIME'S Dec. 5 august dispenser of "sweet praise" picked a sour line to hold aloft and admire: "Like most good poets, Hall knows that 'Life is hell, but death is worse.' " There will be a moment of silence while we strike from the list of "most good poets": Shakespeare - "O, amiable lovely death"; Whitman - "Lovely and soothing death"; Shelley - "How wonderful is death...
Jefferson Davis, by Hudson Strode, tried to rescue the President of the Confederacy from the sour apple tree from which he has been so long suspended. In the first volume (another to come), Davis seemed to be treated with exaggerated sympathy, but the portrait of a young Southern gentleman came from intimate sources and was long overdue...
...Knife. Clifford Odets gums away at some sour grapes, and spits the seeds at Hollywood; with Jack Palance Ida Lupino (TIME...
...waste. Kayser raised $6,000,000 in capital, formed El Paso Natural Gas to build the pipeline. (El Paso, unlike most other gas-transmission companies, has built most of its own pipelines.) Part of the flare gas that came through this first 217-mile line turned out to be "sour"-loaded with sulphur. Nobody had ever made money from sour gas before, but Kayser and his men worked out a cheap way to remove the sulphur, sold both the sulphur...
...Knife. Clifford Odets gums away at some sour grapes, and spits the seeds at Hollywood; with Jack Palance...