Word: bemoaning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ultimate Discoveries. No longer driven by the goad of poor gentility, Millionaire Shaw is as ready as any tycoon to bemoan the woes of being wealthy. In his conversations with Neighbor Winsten, the Shavian past & present unroll like an endless, multicolored ribbon...
...paradoxical indeed that the very people who bemoan the size of the national debt and have the greatest fear of the Russian "menace" are the ones who are crying loudest for tax relief. Now is the time, if ever, to pay off some of the public indebtedness. The United States can reduce its debt and support the Marshall Plan only if taxes are maintained at the present level. In fact it might even be a wise move to raise them...
...invaded Carnegie Hall. Despite all these achievements, he likes to appear indolent. Says he: "My idea of a vacation is just to go home, lie in the bed, if the phone rings pick it up and tell them I don't feel like it." Some of his critics bemoan his constant concertizing in recent years, and the pretentious kind of symphonic jazz he has written for Carnegie Hall (New World A'Comin'; The Deep South'). But the Duke insists he hasn't changed. "I'm not trying to convince anybody of anything...
...Mirandas are too busy planning a bigger & better export business after the war to bemoan the fact that they are pretty much on the sidelines for the duration. Right now they are dreaming of air-conditioning Latin America...
Wherever Negroes gather in the U.S., hands rise just as quickly to such a question. To them Lift Every Voice and Sing is the No. 2 song to the national anthem. While white people bemoan the lack of suitable patriotic songs, even find fault with The Star-Spangled Banner's annoying octave-and-a-half range, colored people have quietly adopted a rousing anthem of their...