Word: sours
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a 2 p.m. wedding breakfast-filet mignon and champagne for 300 at Detroit's Latin Quarter-the festivities continued with a 6 p.m. reception at which 750 guests danced to the music of a polka band and gorged on such delicacies as kielbasa (sausage) and sweet-and-sour sauerkraut. Toward midnight, as per Polish custom. Barbara Hoffa finally removed her veil and departed on her honeymoon, leaving Jimmy with only...
...heartlessly turned off the croft. The terrier followed his master to town, sat by his side while he died in a dismal padding ken, followed his coffin to Greyfriars kirkyard, plumped himself down on the old man's grave to spend the night. "No dogs allowed!" the sour old sexton (Donald Crisp) bellowed, and booted him out the gate. But that night and every night Bobby sneaked back in to sleep on his master's grave, soon became such an object of civic admiration in Edinburgh that the Lord High Commissioner awarded him the Freedom of the City...
Gump's own taste in all things has not been universally admired. The New York Times said that his favorite hobby-the Guckenheimer Sour Kraut German Band, which he leads in irregular concerts in San Francisco-deserves "a special place in the history of musical mayhem." But in matters artistic, Gump's has established itself as a place where people not sure of their own judgment may buy confidently. Bargains are not the house specialty, but not everything is expensive: on the same page in the Gump catalogue, a gold-finished compact with a jade medallion is listed...
...glitter from the proscenium, news of each scene is projected on a screen from slides (a Ia Chaplin), and poor old Maggie Ziskind, cast as the Widow Leosadia Begbick, a saloon-keeping trollop, has to bundle up in ratty Lotte Lenya togs and belt out a couple of those sour songs that were Mrs. Weill's stock-in-trade. (The words for most of these songs are by Mr. Bentley, the music--as Wall-ish as a composer of Sing Musel can make it--by Mr. Joseph Raposo...
...death march of 25,000 Jews from Budapest to Austria. The Hungarians were responsible for the deaths, insisted the defendant. "Hungary was the only country where we were not quick enough for them," he had told Sassen. "They turned their Jews over to us like throwing away sour beer...