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Word: sours (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bulow, in his first outstanding speech in nine years in the Senate, admitted that the U. S. might well forget neutrality to "track Hitler down and hang him to a sour apple tree." But he warned that this hunt would cost millions of lives, while Hitler might have died a natural death meanwhile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Brass Tacks | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...Union. Still happily present in Mr. Fish's memory was his coup of last January, when he and 50 Republicans outsmarted bumbling Leader Alben Barkley, ousted him from his plushy post as head junketeer to the Union sessions (TIME, Jan. 30). But Mr. Fish also found a little sour milk in his junket. Before he sailed for Oslo, he confidently left in the hands of the House Foreign Affairs Committee a bill proposing a $50,000 appropriation for a 1940 session of the Union in the U. S. In choosing his fellow junketeers, happy Mr. Fish overlooked Massachusetts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Sideshows | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

...Nice, Sour Lemons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 10, 1939 | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

Even down here in the heart of the Sugar Bowl we know that you've just got to have nice, sour lemons to make good lemonade. Give Mr. Harper his lump sugar, but continue making the rest a little on the tart side for us good-natured fellows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 10, 1939 | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

Maybe it's just sour grapes, but go ahead, I like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

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