Word: sourly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only an Orangeman, and a sour one at that, could resist such a beginning to an international romance. Frank and Breda met first in Tralee where, as the song says, the pale moon rises above the green mountain. While most of County Kerry (and a stomping herd of out-of-town newsmen) looked on, they spent a day touring the Killarney Lakes, several hours at the thatched cottage on the 15-acre O'Sullivan farm where Breda's uncle dourly examined the visitor from America and 24-year-old Breda stuffed him with tea and cakes specially made...
...Bring Your Wife." Hotels have given more than 11,000 rooms to the Republicans. The Blackstone (where Eisenhower will stay) has produced such cocktails as the Eisenhower Eye-Opener (whisky sour), the Taft Teaser (Manhattan) and the Dark Horse (old fashioned). The Palmer House, mindful of the footwork delegates will have to do, is putting a bottle of foot lotion into each room. A major tourist attraction last week was the new eight-room, $40,000 presidential suite at the Congress Hotel where hundreds of visitors, held back by museum-like ropes, gazed at the master parlor...
...Sour Grapes. The day of the court's decision, the Times-Star ran a sour-grapes editorial. Said the paper: "The Times-Star did not anticipate any such controversy .. . The cost of production has gone steadily up, and newspaper earnings have gone considerably down. Ownership of the Enquirer lost a great deal of its attractiveness for us." But Scripps-Howard's Cincinnati Post, the city's third daily, doffed its hat to Ratliff's committee. Said the Post: "What many of us had thought could not happen, did happen. This show of enterprise . . . by a band...
...very happy to note in TIME, May 26, that you have finally served General MacArthur his just desserts on a silver platter-a bowl of sour grapes...
...floor of the Bundestag, where he deftly maneuvers a bloc of 130 Socialist Deputies (against some 200 who normally stand by Adenauer), Schumacher evokes the same feelings. With painful-looking gestures, hissing sentences, here a lightning jab and there a sour sarcasm, he seems-whether he means to or not- the reincarnation of the rabble-rousers who all but destroyed his own body and led Germany down to catastrophe...