Word: sourly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...testing the 30-odd ingredients of a perfume such as Chanel No. 5, not all the smells that waft up to the Great Nose are pleasant. To "fix" the perfume by uniting other ingredients, perfumers use such sour or fetid-smelling substances as musk, castoreum (made from beavers' testicles), ambergris (a secretion in the sperm whale intestine), and civet glands. Explains Beaux: "Pepper and salt don't taste pleasantly when taken alone, but they enhance the taste of a dish." Beaux gives each essence the nose test because some scents will last after a week of exposure, while...
...gentleman farmer, taking the baroness along to a great round of parties, neglecting the children . . . After the first year, the baron stopped paying [my salary]. There was a terrible scene whenever I asked for money." The children's food was coarse, the farm milk was often sour, their clothes were made of cheap material. To improve these conditions, Sister Madeleine ran up debts, stole jewelry and silver to sell in Biarritz. Said she: "I lived a life of torment at the château, because I knew that someday I would be found out. But I had the arms...
...contrast with the generally salty content of the meal, there should be an order of sweet and sour pork. Chunks of pork, deep fried in a light batter, are covered by a sauce of sugar and vinegar, producing a sweetness laced tingling tartness. Although it lacks the body to stand as a separate dish, the sauce is also excellent with rice, and after the pork is gone, makes a fine semi-dessert...
...anything to do with the recent "piety" controversy. He noted, however, that the same people who voted to prohibit religious ceremonies in Association meetings are now supporting Wiegand. "They are using him as a 'scape-goat' to hinder my administration," he said. He said his opponents had a "sour grapes" attitude toward his election. Schulman, a "dark horse" candidate, won the presidency of the association by one vote...
National Distillers Products Corp. bought Italian Swiss in 1942 as a hedge against wartime restrictions on whisky. But, after the war, the U.S. wine market turned sour, and has stayed that way ever since. Accordingly, National was glad to sell...