Word: sourly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...James, 64, two-time Pulitzer Prizewinner* for history (The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston, Andrew Jackson; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Rye, N.Y. Of historical writing, he said: "Many good writers . . . are lazy and shallow about their research . . . most of the . . . competent researchists can't write for sour apples...
...Knife. Clifford Odets gums away at some sour grapes, and spits the seeds at Hollywood; with Jack Palance, Ida Lupino (TIME...
...Knife. Clifford Odets gums away at some sour grapes, and spits the seeds at Hollywood; with Jack Palance, Ida Lupino (TIME...
...Knife. Clifford Odets gums away at some sour grapes and spits the seeds at Hollywood; with Jack Palance, Ida Lupino (TIME...
...Sour Grapevine. In his $1,000-a-month hotel suite, Cash can afford to be philosophical about what the sour grapevine calls him. "We have a peculiar national attitude toward money-making," he tells an acquaintance. "We maintain that the very foundation of our way of life is what we call free enterprise-the profit system -but when one of our citizens shows enough free enterprise to pile up a little of that profit, we do our best to make him feel . . . ashamed of himself...