Word: complain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just Beyond. It seems scarcely necessary to complain about this venture. It was a story of drought in Australia and closed after seven performances...
...professional career ahead, college players will constantly better the standard of their game. The professional game will also bring the small college player his due. Take the case of Parnell of Allegheny, who though one of our greatest players, never got his measure of glory. Why the colleges complain, I don't know. They don't object to the baseball player who makes good in the professional game--they are proud...
...dislike by the newspaper commentators. It is a newspaper melodrama done without regard to verity. Possibly it is not so utterly unlike journalism as society pictures are unlike society, or Parisian underworld pictures are unlike Montmartre. Rich people and French cocottes have no opportunity and probably small inclination to complain, but not so the critics when they dislike the distorted version of their colleagues. Furthermore it was pretty stilted melodrama...
Clarence Darrow, that brilliant criminal lawyer who specializes in lost hopes, has recently been accused of moral cowardice by his best advertised adversary; yet he did not hesitate to tell a large audience of Detroit negroes that their race has really very little to complain about. Slavery he said dispassionately, had been a good thing for them. It had given them a chance at civilization long before their time, and whatever troubles they might encounter are the price they must pay for the value of premature contact with something better than their primitive condition in Africa...
...between Saul and David, horns complain in the night; discords rise, resolve; figures whisper and stir in a camp of many tents. Saul goes to consult the Witch of Endor and a whirling wind of ghostly voices imparts to him foreknowledge of doom. Saul and his three sons die in the battle of Gilboa while the Israelites march ("The Lament of Gilboa"). A women's chorus of solo voices proclaims David King of Israel. David's humility has gone flying away with the pebble that burrowed in Goliath's brain; he swaggers and struts before the Lord...