Word: sours
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...problem I interviewed a House master who professed amazement at the passiveness with which the students accept the deplorable lack of facilities. This passiveness can be explained by the satisfaction of most us who were admitted, coupled with the fear the disappointed have that their protests will be labeled "sour grapes...
...magazine. In this book, 88 photographs of U. S. landscape and people (taken independently of Poet MacLeish, and mostly for the Resettlement Administration) are "illustrated" by a running verse commentary in which Poet MacLeish says his say about a sweet land whose liberty, for many of its inhabitants, went sour...
MEMORY OF YOUTH-Vilhelm Moberg -Simon & Schuster ($2.50). A sturdier Swedish Little Man, What Now? about a successful Stockholm magazine editor, turned sour on city life, who muses for 322 of the novel's 405 pages on his frustrated but retrospectively happy peasant youth...
...relaxes with a compressed air sign, and allows passengers to scurry off. Two women, plump, middle-aged, the kind who dress the same for every occasion, every season, every time they go out of the house. A lad whose gaudy suit calls up instant associations with bargain basements. A sour wisp of a woman, ugly and thirty, about whose person the shadow of an old maid already hangs, trying desperately to make last year's finery do. In all of them, exaggerated copies of the true styles, or else utter disregard for any sort of style. Except one amazingly patrician...
Jerking the attention of the nation away from a bristling Europe back towards its own capital, President Roosevelt's removal of Arthur E. Morgan as T.V.A. chairman strikes a sour note in the policies of the chief executive. He has raised a delicate legal question that may drag on for months, but whatever the decision, this struggle of personalities is another proof of the peculiar opportunism which the President has always possessed. He is a chess player whose plan consists of a vast desire to win, whose method is to cope with each situation when it comes...