Word: sours
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Follies with Grace. Author Thurber's own start in life came at the hands of Midwife Margery Albright, who rates, and gets, one of the most endearing portraits in the Album. Aunt Margery "knew where sour grass grew, which you chew for dyspepsy, and mint, excellent for the naushy, and the slippery elm . . . for raw throat and other sore tishas." Contemptuous of doctors, she cured her husband of fever by forcing a broth of sheep droppings down his protesting gullet. For stubborn pregnancies she blew powdered tobacco "up one nostril of the expectant mother," and so brought...
Perhaps because the public remembered his own past willingness to run, perhaps for other reasons, the MacArthur thrust failed to create any great stir. Among the great man's well-deserved laurels nestled a bunch of slightly sour grapes...
...markup (average 22%) to the tax itself* While the Big Four distillers (Schenley, National, Seagram's and Hiram Walker) insist that they will maintain prices, smaller distillers have already begun to cut prices of straight whiskies. Sample: United Distillers has slashed its J. W. Dant bottled-in-bond sour-mash bourbon by 90? a fifth...
...weekly press conference, the President was alternately sweet & sour. On questions about steel (see above), he was the model of patient reasonableness. But when he was asked if he would serve if he were drafted for another term, the Truman jaw jutted out, the presidential voice snapped: he would not accept the nomination, and that ends that. What about the smear rumor that General Eisenhower is in poor health? Eisenhower is in perfect health, said the President with earnest conviction, and as fine a man as ever walked. Then he relaxed and chuckled that the general is just beginning...
...mills was promptly rejected by District Judge Alexander Holtzoff. He was not sure whether or not his court could issue an injunction against the President of the U.S. A glum collection of steelmen stalked into Secretary Sawyer's office. Cracked U.S. Steel's Ben Fairless, with a sour grin: "Hello Boss...