Word: complain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe any one who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide, but most people don't think. . . . How deadly stupid we are. . . ."; 3) turned over her regular press conference to Mrs. Mary Harriman Rumsey who told the disappointed newshawks how female consumers can complain to the NRA about the cost of what they buy and to Miss Mary W. Dewson of the Women's Division of the Democratic National Committee who told what plans were afoot to make women Democrats out of women Republicans...
...political head the stir had quite another significance. It meant that most of the silver bloc in Congress had had their thunder stolen. Only a few months ago silver was 25? an ounce and 64 1/2 ? was such a magnificent price by comparison that they would appear foolish to complain By his action the President appeared to have detached one of the most earnest battalions from the inflationist army, to have disarmed what would undoubtedly have been one of the most troublesome factions in the new Congress. As for the results of the new policy, quidnuncs saw that...
With their upperclass colleagues in the Houses eating breakfast at 9.30, and in dining hails conveniently near, the Freshmen have some cause to complain of their present system. Their Dana Hall breakfast hour only causes inconvenience to individual students, and an 8.29 A.M. chaos in the dining hall. It is no good answer to the suggested change that it would only succeed in pushing forward this chaos to 8.45. In the Houses, students who have 9 o'clock classes have found it advisable to appear in the dining hall before 8.30. The benefit of the later hour would accrue chiefly...
...TIME'S impartial eye. all races, creeds and colors receive the same objective inspection, analysis, description. TIME is impatient of supersensitive members of any group who suspect and complain that it does otherwise...
...bearded Bishop of Exeter. Lord Hugh announced he would promote a suit against Bishop David before the Archbishop of York, if someone would supply legal evidence of the Bishop's misdeeds. Exclaimed Lord Hugh: "If a Unitarian may preach under a Bishop's authority, who can reasonably complain about departures from the text of the prayerbook? We shall hardly be able to resist the polemics of the Roman Catholics when they tell us our church is a sect born of schism collapsing in anarchy...