Word: sours
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...personality the Sardinian is grave and dignified, chivalrous and hospitable. Unfortunately he is nearly always poor and generally illiterate. Luxury to him means a tummy replete with porchettu, or sucking pig roasted upon a spit. Between piglets he subsists upon a diet featuring frue (sour milk) and a sweet fresh cheese. Hardy, he is apt not to notice fleas...
...original bottles. He can either get hold of a costly complete translation or he can read them is the Latin or Greek. The latter is much to be desired, but often impossible, but either is better than to be led into believing that na incomparable literary masterpiece is such sour dishwater as the present offering of Messrs.. Boni and Live right...
Advice is the cheapest commodity in Cambridge today. Almost any Freshman, bored and weary after this round of first meetings, can castify to that. Appetite by a flood of sweet wisdom, he is apt to turn slightly sour at the thought of remaining further in the role of advisee. If this is the case it is unfortunate for two reasons. First, because interest in other people's welfare is a forced thing at Harvard and the years of plenty will be followed by a long lean term, advice is obtained only for the asking. Secondly, because the soundest, most reasonable...
When West Point Cadets attend chapel, clear and true peal out the notes of the chapel organ. Last week, however, the organ's integrity was seriously threatened. It seemed possible that in the not distant future it would be giving forth sour, discordant notes, offensive to the sensibilities of future generals. For the State of New York planned to run a new highway through the academy grounds, not far from the chapel and it appeared that the vibration from countless passing motor cars would be gravely detrimental to the pitch and harmony of the organ's music...
...Manhattan daily newspaper critics, gave the best performances of the year. The winners: Miss Pauline Lord for her work in Sandalwood, Mariners; Alfred Lunt, for his work in Juarez and Maximilian, Ned McCobb's Daughter, The Second Man. Actresses honorably mentioned in the critics' ballots: Alice Brady (Sour Grapes, The Witch, Lady Alone, The Thief), Ruth Gordon (Saturday's Children), Rose McClendon (In Abraham's Bosom), Helen Menken (The Captive), Ethel Barrymore (The Constant Wife), Lynn Fontanne (Pygmalion, The Second Man), Jane Cowl (The Road To Rome), Blanche Yurka (The Squall). Actors honorably mentioned: Walter Huston...