Sour Puss, // Rita Mae Brown // Bantam Books, 2007 ...

Sour Puss, // Rita Mae Brown // Bantam Books, 2007 // 9780553586817 // 276 pages // 2007 Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, hi ... (Etc.) GEORGE. (Very matter-of-factly.) You must be our little guests. MARTHA. Ha, ha, ha, HA! Just ignore old sour-puss over there. C'mon in, kids ... give your coats and stuff to sour-puss. NICK. (Without expression.) Well, now, perhaps we shouldn't have come ... HONEY. Starting from scratch: How to correct behavior problems in your adult cat, page 4. Also by Pam Johnson-Bennett Psycho Kitty- Twisted Whiskers Hiss and Tell: True Stories from the Files of a Cat Shrink Think Like a Cat: How to Raise a Well-Adjusted Cat Not a Sour Puss Cat vs. Cat: Keeping Peace When You Have More Than One Cat Page. On the avowal and projection of happiness, unhappiness may be equated with failure, incompetence, moral inferiority, and a sign of sin and personal worthlessness The profusion of popular-happmess books and articles, the social acceptibihty of the jolly good fellow and re- jection of the sour puss, cheer and smiles. The Sand Castle, other books by Rita Mae Brown: Wish You Were Here The Tell-Tale Horse Puss'n Cahoots Sour Puss Cat's Eyewitness The Hounds and the Fury Whisker of Evil The Hunt Ball The Purrfect Murder Starting From Scratch Full Cry Hotspur Pay Dirt Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary. Service: Its psychosocial aspects and psychospiritual context, out of our own selfish fear of ending up in jail. Mother's reaction was, Oh that simplistic old sour- puss wouldn't know a moral dilemma if it smacked him in the face. Let's try something different next Sunday. She had just read. Why Updike's Fiction Continues to Matter, this content downloaded from 66.249.79.171 on Tue, 17 Jan 2017 00:47:49 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Page 2. ARTS AND LETTERS 333 quotidian life is that it leads more often to celebration and a broad smile than to America bashing and a sour puss. Harold Ickes, Horace Albright, and the Hundred Days: A Study in Conservation Administration, page 2. 456 PACIFIC HISTORICAL REVIEW proudly labeled himself America's No. 1 Curmudgeon, or Sour Puss, 1 and by design set out to terrorize the employees of the Interior Department and various other governmental agencies. Folk Children's Pejorative Nicknames and Epithets, snag: ie, gap-toothed 72. Snaggle tooth: ditto 7:3. Sparky: restless, nervous individual T4. Sour puss: same as picklepuss 75. Specs: refers to one who wears spectacles 76. Spider: long-legged 77. Strarcrry: refers to skin pigmentation/ hair color 78. T attic-talc: tale bearer. Poor Little Rich Girl, they dont leave a snail trail how come youre not married yet you must be a lesbian bushpig homosexual manhater dyke leso witch you must be frigid cold frustrated chilled sexually repressed abnormal up yourself you must be a virgin tight arse vinegar tits sour puss catholic. Current status of the professional education of teachers, so ago, one of our national magazines published an article entitled, Gone Are the Days. In brief the article described the teach- er of yesterday as a sourpuss, and welcoming the changes in teach- er personnel to the point that gone are the days of the sour- puss. This article. Classic cover-ups and misguided messages: Examining face-trait associations in stereotyped perceptions of nonverbal behavior, avoiding intimacy 67 74 130 103 73 14. Sourpuss 78 13 15 108 25 15. Overly serious 141 38 32 165 72 Note: Italicized items represent most frequently selected characteristics ( ? 50% of participants) per facial display. ing intimacy, sour puss, and overly serious. Octopus, platypus, sourpuss, page 1. OCTOPUS, PLATYPUS, SOURPUSS Peter Wood T e university is one of the most durable institutions Western civilization. This does not sound OCTOPUS, PLATYPUS, SOURPUSS 53 Page 2. exactly like a descent into the abyss of mindless com- mercialism. Reality in fiction: No laughing matter, and sour, she's sourpuss, sourpuss, Rupert told them. They all knew Stoker's word for their great aunt, though none of them had let on before. So Sourpuss! Sourpuss, they cried until Quentin tactfully said, Here goes. And here he went. Personal construct consistency, were also rated. For example, if (a) sense of humor versus (b) sour puss was a construct elicited from one pair of acquaintances, S was then asked to rate each of the other 13 acquaintances on this construct. They were rated. Reframing Global Warming: Toward a Strategic National Planning Framework, his future. The visitations catalyze a metamorphosis in old Scrooge. Overnight, he transforms from a miserly, sour-puss to a man of unparalleled generosity and goodwill toward others [Dickens (1843)]. The enduring popularity. Games People Play In Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf, she tells Nick and Honey, the new biology instructor and his wife, to ignore old sour puss. George retaliates by playing Blemish with the guests she has invited. He imitates Honey's silly giggle and completes every sentence Nick begins. The Gossiping Triremes in Aristophanes' Knights, 1300-1315, they say someone is asking for a hundred of us to sail to Carthage, a no-good citizen, that sour-puss Hyperbolus. One of the triremes, who had not come near a crew (&v~pcyv, 1306), declares her resolve never to serve under Hyperbolus. Idiomagic, think of the many idioms dealing with animals: Don't make a hog of yourself. He's top dog. She's a sour puss. Don't count your chickens before they9 re hatched. He's a rat. She's playing possum. It sounds fishy. I'm no chicken. He's a stool pigeon. She's a clothes horse. Football crazy: ball games for all ages, love it or loathe it, the World Cup is here, and you won't be able to escape! But, whether you're a football fan or a soccer sourpuss, the tournament is a great opportunity to involve children in ball games, says Tommy Donbavand. Try these action-packed activities for size. Bilingual Therapies Symposium. Las Vegas, 2010, don't make it personal. Focus on quality work. Collaborate. Copyright Catherine Crowley 2013 Don't be a sour puss (or self-righteous) Copyright Catherine Crowley 2013 Share your expertise â ¢ Volunteer to give in-services. â ¢ Bring up case studies. â ¢ Share quality articles.