Sour Grapes Origin In Aesop Fable Fox Grapes
The expression derives from Aesop's fable in which a fox cannot reach the grapes and, deeming them sour, goes away saying they are sour. The refrain expresses disparagement of something beyond reach.
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1948
Page
10
The expression derives from Aesop's fable in which a fox cannot reach the grapes and, deeming them sour, goes away saying they are sour. The refrain expresses disparagement of something beyond reach.
Kit Marshall leaves Washington for New York to serve as social secretary to Tracy Field. A chance meeting with Mike Saunders in a restaurant leads to a ride to a Connecticut estate, where Kit confronts her family’s tainted past and the fear of being judged.
Grimes notes a Sunday night service at Galilee. Residents report multiple moves including Russell Grubs to Apple Pie Ridge tenant house, Thomas Brannon from Bowley Orchard to Bond Brothers Orchard, and Woodrow Milburn relocating to Ohio. Interspersed social visits and hog raising updates appear among neighbors in Galilee and surrounding areas.
Middletown Virginia records multiple community moves and visits. William Wood and Joyce Wood depart for Richmond. Hattie Hayward visits the recovering Wallie Stickley. News of the death of Mrs. J H Gushard in Mechanicsburg Pa. moves and other relocations include Ley Everly near Edinburg and Annabell Knaar into the Reely property near town.
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King George VI will visit Australia and New Zealand early in 1949 with Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret accompanying. The visit marks a major royal tour as Britain sustains postwar ties with dominions.
Bloom News reports the Friendly Grove Community Hall Association held a St Patrick’s event at 7 30 p m with games and refreshments. Miss Mary Triplett and Miss Anna Jane Cooper visit their families as local activities and church events are noted. An outlandish note mentions Caspian Sea water flow creating a lake Erie sized.
Standard Oil of New Jersey ordered two tankers with 228000 barrel capacity each from Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. Marseille is noted as the site of ancient Greek Massalia.
The Middleburg hunter trials will be held at Newell J. Ward Jr. farm near Middleburg Virginia on March 24. The five event program will conclude with the Middleburg bowl presentation to the champion hunter. Entries close March 15.
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