Word: complain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...calling"; could not be said to violate right to free speech because freedom of speech does not "constitute unbridled license for every possible use of language." Thus Miss Whitney, reputedly a Mayflower-descendant, must serve 1 to 14 years at San Quentin prison. Said she: "I have nothing to complain of in comparison to Sacco and Vanzetti...
Older people often complain of the one-sidedness of youth, deploring their lack of mature wisdom. Suppose there were a community in which all the young people were equipped with the mature and more casual point of view of men of 40 or 50 years old: How dull, how uninteresting that community would be! And among the first to raise a howl would be the older generation...
...universities a bright new penny or two to put these new ideas into operation. But if the results justify the expense of larger teaching staffs so as to do this individual teaching, and higher salaries so as to get the best men to do it, no one will complain about that. The cost will be little compared to the advantages that will be gained. --Yale Alumni Weekly...
People who lack music often complain that music lacks humor. Such people never grasp witty music, the intentioned epigrams of Ravel and Scriabine, of that deft and revered knight, Sir Arthur Sullivan. They can understand performers who make fun of serious music, burlesquing well-known classics, but how performers can, without irreverence, have fun with music these complainers cannot see. Few such gentry were in the Cleveland audience which last week heard a drunken Russian cab driver conduct the Volga boat-song. Nicolai Sokolov, Cleveland Orchestra conductor, famed interpreter of the Russians, had just directed his orchestra through...
...Pelles, that old stickler's bold-spirited daughter had offered her self to him as wife or mistress, she cared not which, in frank passion for his sombre scars, grace and fortitude; how upon his next visit, when he went reluctantly at his liege's bidding to complain of dusty hay which had given Arthur's horse the heaves, Elaine had tricked him into her chamber by an ambiguous message and there made a plea, and a display, of such pitiable devotion that no generous man, whatever his integrity, could have denied her. Nor was it remarkable...