Word: sourly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Latin American outcries about Yankee imperialism ("Even that which Americans do with good intention becomes tainted because there is such a difference in psychology"), and developed so strong a left-wing slant that when he joined the Free French in 1940, a right-wing Gaullist received him with the sour greeting: "Bonjour, Commissar." Like most other French leftists, Soustelle supported Socialist Leon Blum's prewar Popular Front with the Communists. In Mexico one of his great friends was Communist Painter Diego Rivera, who was at that time, Soustelle recalls, "in an anti-Stalinist phase and carried a large pistol...
...Maxims of La Rochefoucauld, translated by Louis Kronenberger. The 17th century wit, courtier, soldier and cynic pressed the tart juices of aphorism out of the sweet and sour grapes of his varied social experience...
...paused to test new TV equipment that enabled them to speak in front of a TV camera and then, right afterwards, to see themselves on a TV screen and hear a tape playback of their voices. As the camera turned his way, Khrushchev, wearing his floppy straw hat, looked sour. Said Nixon: "You look quite angry, as if you wanted to fight." It soon came out that Khrushchev was still considerably disturbed about the Captive Nations proclamation. "You have churned the water yourselves," said Khrushchev. "Why this was necessary, God only knows. What happened? What black cat crossed your path...
...actor by training, Wilmenrod, 52, owes his success to his lip-smacking, butter-and-ego personality. When he was an infant, says Clemens, his finely tuned palate rejected sour bottles that adults figured were perfectly sweet. All through his years of playing the provinces, he claims to have cultivated his "sixth sense for gourmandise" (a French girl friend was his most valuable assistant). Not until he had been on the air for two years did Wilmenrod ever bother with anything as stultifying as a professional cooking course...
...Four Seasons also has food. From goose to mousse, it has one of the highest-priced-and most exotic-menus in high-priced Manhattan, in league with Chambord, Le Pavilion, Colony, Brussels, "21." A typical dinner for two, from Sweet and Sour Pike in Tarragon Aspic ($2.25) through Piccata of Piglet in Pastry ($5.25), to genuine Violets in Summer Snow ($1.75), can easily cost up to $70 with drinks and tips. Seasonal foods and delicacies from all over the world are rushed to the restaurant by plane; its $100,000 wine cellar holds 15,000 bottles. If a visitor...