Word: complain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...areas that Mr. Carmer so rapidly covers is ample subject for a book in itself. Chautauquans and Rochesterians, especially those who are both, have good reason to complain of the treatment accorded them. But they come off well compared with Buffalo which gets about a page, and Syracuse which gets nothing. The beautiful and legend-haunted Otsego country, home of Fenimore Cooper, is also completely neglected...
...Mack findings last spring with a few minor modifications. Its pristine vitality gone, its name more a liability than an asset, the Sugar Institute meantime whittled down its activities to the gathering of innocent sugar statistics. Publicly the sugar men took their legal spanking in good grace. Privately they complain that other trade associations were, and still are, getting away with things that the Sugar Institute never even attempted...
...Press discovered notorious, 260-lb. Sam ("Chowderhead Cohen'') Harris busy hiring strikebreakers. Calling the police after Chowderhead became rambunctious. Editor Palmer yelled: "Here's the hiring man for the finks! This ex-convict is working for the steamship owners and they have the nerve to complain to Dewey about racketeers!" Bellowed beefy Chowderhead: "I'll take no gump from anybody! I'll talk to no -- reporters!" Six policemen then dragged him off to jail...
...solidarity of the little group begins to splinter. The generals complain of pains and illness, long to be away. The faithful Corsican attendant Cipriani (Jules Epailly) dies. Las Cases (Alan Wheatley), smugly cherishing his biographical notes, is sent away by the British -without his notes. Gourgaud (Joseph Macaulay), sulking like a jealous mistress when anyone else approaches his idol, finds his lot unendurable, weeps, departs. Suffering from confinement and a bad liver, Napoleon is haunted at night by the spectres of his mistakes. He cannot forget, he says, that if he had not attacked so soon at Waterloo, he would...
...able scholars to Harvard and keep them there by easing classroom and tutorial work, setting up "roving professorships" to cut across departmental lines. As a man who spent 20 fruitful years in the laboratory without closing his eyes to the classics, Dr. Conant has small patience with those who complain that research must not be overemphasized at the expense of teaching. To that charge he likes to cite the account by Edward Gibbon of the Greek scholars in loth Century Constantinople...