Word: sourly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aging ladies with whom she rooms are a sweet-and-sour pair of spinster sisters. The sour one treats embroidery as the first law of life, but the sweet one clucks over Nora like a mother and puts in a word now and then about Peter Lynch, the headmaster at Nora's school, and what a nice husband he would make...
...sour second Hurley showed disgust. "Feel around and see if you're still in bed," he snapped. Then the old pitchman started his spiel again. His "athalete," he told the reporters, was going to murder Cockell. The words flicked out sharper than a Matthews...
...latest is Stranger Come Home, which comes with the assurance that all its characters are "imaginary." But any moderately attentive reader will begin naming the originals who inspired them almost at once, will feel in the end what is sadly true: that Stranger is a sour mash of stale news stories. The only bit of imagination connected with Author Shirer's book is the startling notion of calling it a novel...
...Eugene O'Malley was rehearsing the Paulist Choir of Chicago's St. Mary's Church, and the sound and fury was something his 100-odd choristers took in stride. He ranged up and down the basement rehearsal hall like a restless spirit, his ears stretching for sour notes and his eyes for inattention. "Watch me!" he shouted. "If you don't watch me, you'll go flying out of here so fast you won't know what happened to you!" Suddenly he swooped. "You're flat! You're throwing everyone else...
...gazed up at a trellis to which grapes were tied- Matured till they glowed with a purplish tint As though there were gems inside. Now grapes were what our adventurer on strained haunches chanced to crave, But because he could not reach the vine He said, "These grapes are sour, I'll leave them for some knave." Better, I think, than an embittered whine...