Word: complain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Pecuniary losses may be recuperated. Life may not. Surely those who complain must feel small of heart, knowing they are unwilling to lose a bare fraction of their wealth where other less selfish men are giving their very...
...final selection of men to attend the Plattsburg camp has aroused some complaint, most of it apparently coming from men outside the University. In any game of life, foolish or real, there are always some among the losers to complain; although in most men the spirit of Saxon fairness is strong enough that they may bear defeat like gentlemen...
...silly channel steamer with it unreal label of noise, the London house with its utterly unEnglish inhabitants are not made real because in a very reasense they are merely the stage upon which Mr. Powers reels in his drunkenness. We do not complain that this is so. The American farce is an genre as another and we enjoy Mr. Powers...
...land" dividing India from Afghanistan and Kashmir. This work is as necessary as munitions factories and telegraphs in the organization of a big army and after all the stories I have heard from men who have been away up the Tigris, I don't believe I can complain at being spared the rotten food and constant fevers of East Africa and Mesopotamia...
...philosopher that he cannot take a national view of the questions involved in the war. Like Woodrow Wilson, he regards the whole world as mad, with one nation as much to blame as another for the general outbreak of insanity. This being, apparently, his view, Mr. Russell can hardly complain of his own treatment by the British Government; he must admit that, being in a madhouse, it is natural that the inmates, who regard themselves as sane, should after their fashion treat him as a madman. To escape the rigid supervision of the authorities in time of war, a philosopher...