Word: sourly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best idea occured on a trip to Europe in 1928. It was simply to apply the smooth, meticulous style of the German and Flemish primitives to the American scene. Result: quick and spectacular success. Wood's American Gothic -a head-on portrayal of a sour, bald farmer with a pitchfork and his tight-lipped wife -became an icon for Paint America Firsters...
...fruits of Milton Eisenhower's recent tour of South America include at least one plum rather sour to Latin tastes. United States embassies throughout South and Central America have received notice that future money for loans to private industry must come more from commercial investors and less from the Government...
Purpur said this weekend that, "Cooney Weiland must be pretty sour." He was commenting on the Crimson coach's strong objections to Canadian players competing in collegiate ranks in the Mid-western Hockey League...
...that there were so many dinners given in honor of the event that he sold "enough parsley to decorate the gymnasium"). One New Year's Day. she appropriately headed a column "Some Morning-After Cures" (samples: twelve dashes of Angostura bitters in a glass of soda, a whisky sour, stay in bed and drink the juice from canned tomatoes, or-for a real bad hangover-an extra-dry Martini...
...orchestra pit to compliment the musicians, and filed out into the plush lobby gesticulating to each other like conductors. The" critics chimed in. Bernstein, wrote top Critic Giulio Confalonieri, is "absolutely predestined to music." Milan's eminent Corriere della Sera called him "indisputably brilliant." One of few sour notes came from an elderly admirer: "He's an American...