Word: sours
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Even his success in the Sudan began to turn sour. Premier El Azhari, elected with Salem's backing on a platform of eventual union with Egypt, underwent a change of heart and began hinting that complete independence for the Sudan might be even nicer. Salem was furious. When Premier Azhari went to Cairo last July to celebrate the anniversary of Egypt's army revolution, Propaganda Minister Salem forbade even the mention of his name in the papers. Azhari went home, complaining about Salem's insults.("We were ill-treated. If we had represented a foreign power...
...next day the Yankees' pitching turned sour against the Senators, wasting nine good hits (including two home runs by Hank Bauer) and an early lead to lose 10-5. Chicago followed suit, succumbed to the hungry Cleveland Indians, whom they had walloped 8-1 the day before. With two homers by Centerfielder Larry Doby and Early Wynn's six-hit pitching, the 6-1 victory pulled Cleveland back up to a second-place tie with the Yankees, left Chicago still in front by half a game...
...pleasant garden on Mt. Desert Island off the coast of Maine, a rosy old man sat tootling on a recorder. "I'm not really musical," he explained to a guest, between puffs, and proceeded to prove it with a squeaky rendition of Finlandia. Suddenly he blew a sour note. "Oh, thunder!" exclaimed Mark Anthony DeWolfe Howe. "That makes me so angry...
...Ferment. In Buffalo, Bakery Driver Gabrielle Elfassi was fined $10 for speeding despite his explanation in court that he had to hurry, or "the whipped cream on the cupcakes would sour...
From Soap to Beer. One nobleman wrote Vicki: "I am prepared to plug anything from Coca-Cola, which I don't drink, to the Democratic Party, though I prefer the Republican, and can be sour or sweet, bellicose or pacific, to order." Lord Scarsdale, 57, of the famed Curzon family, a 2nd Viscount, 6th Baron and loth Baronet all in one, enclosed a pamphlet with his job application, detailing the glories of his ancestral home, Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire. Not counting those with hyphenated names claiming to be direct descendants of William the Conqueror ("If they...