Word: sourly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...often after major surgery, especially among elderly patients in accident cases, there is truth in the sour jest that the operation was a success but the patient died. Last week, in the London medical journal Lancet, two physicians described a method of treatment that slashed the death rate among such patients at Birmingham Accident Hospital in England's Midlands...
Myth & Vinegar. Dr. Jarvis prescribes vinegar (always the apple-cider variety) for all comers. The vinegar can be taken straight or diluted in water. But for maximum efficacy, he insists that it be mixed with honey-a sort of sweet-'n'-sour, yang-and-yin combination...
...most fashionable portraitist now active is René Bouché (rhymes with touché). He may also be the best. Last week at Manhattan's Alexander Iolas Gallery, Bouché had on view a brilliant display of what his flickering, sweet-and-sour brush can do. Recent subjects: Truman Capote, Isak Dinesen, Anita Loos, Elsa Maxwell, Mrs. William Paley, the Duchess of Windsor, Lady Astor, the Duchess of Argyll and Alexander Calder...
...sour grapes," he said. The defeat ruined Yale's perfect record of being unbeaten, untied, and unscored on in five games...
...reviews he has received, and reacts with the fury of an upstaged diva to a photograph he considers ill-chosen. In effect, what Mailer has produced is a record of an artistic crackup. By the early 1950s the spare, controlled prose of The Naked and the Dead had turned sour and turgid, and its author was drifting in a haze of liquor, seconal and marijuana. Mailer has stopped using "the minor drugs," he says (although he believes that after a few more years of suppression marijuana will be as widely used as was bootleg...