Word: complain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senateur Henri de Jouvenel wrote in the journal he co-edits (Le Matin) to complain of Britain. Said he: "It is necessary to say frankly to our English friends, that if M. Herriot cannot arrive at an understanding with them no French statesman ever will...
...Allen answered him without a moment's hesitation and silenced his battery for good. He replied: 'If you're dry, don't complain here. Meet me in the Congress...
...were in the market for the goods you offer I would not complain of the character of this consignment, although I notice that you do not guarantee delivery. The price you put on them, however ... is entirely too high. You offer me a chance to be the Democratic nominee for the Presidency, which carries with it, in this year of grace, more than a fair prospect of becoming President of the United States. In exchange, I am to abandon forthwith and immediately a law practice which is both pleasant and, within modest bounds, profitable, to throw over honorable clients...
Italy, like France, has two budgets. When statesmen talk of prosperity, they point with pride to the surplus in the ordinary budget; when they complain of some untoward action on the part of another nation, they refer to the deficit in the extraordinary budget. Thus, despite the much-ado over Italy's financial recovery, budgets which balance, etc., the real position (as shown by the estimates for 1924-25) is, according to Ugo Ancona in the Giornale d'Italia...
...Association!" Subcostalgia. The surgical section heard Dr. Marshall Clinton, associate professor of surgery in the University of Buffalo, describe a condition called "subcostalgia," which he asserted is fairly common. It occurs usually on the right side in right-handed people, as a result of stooping over. The patient may complain of pain before and after an abdominal operation which has been done for removal of the appendix, an inflammation of the gall bladder or for some other reason. The specific cause of the pain is the fact that, in short-waisted people, or people having unusually long ribs, stooping over...