Word: complain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Davis' friends call him "the Democratic Dwight Morrow." His critics complain that he has served Republicans too long to fit into a "new deal." Wealthy, he likes diplomacy for the fun of it. He is as much at home knocking around drafty European conference halls as he is shooting wild turkeys in Tennessee...
...this cheer was for morale, to cheer up the public. For several years doctors have tried to scare everyone with a new, unaccountable lump on his body into running for medical examination. That was all very well, until psychiatrists began to complain that they were being overworked and underpaid by daffy cancer-phobes. It seemed wise to right-face concerning cancer, sound an encouraging clarion...
Ever since he used to dye his own tapes try woolens, Aristide Maillol has been very particular about his materials. He used to complain violently about every type of drawing paper on the market. Several years ago he chewed a big gob of drawing paper while working on a clay model and finally spat it out on the smooth tile floor. Some hours later he picked it up, discovered that the underside of his paper quid had acquired a beautiful fine grain. Faithful Nephew Caspar Maillol undertook to manufacture drawing paper for his uncle and friends by a like process...
...tying up of a patent or a secret process and charging all that the traffic will bear. The United Shoe Machinery Co. has no reason to complain in this department...
...record for elaborate bluffing was the only accomplishment of the Imperial Economic Conference at Ottawa at the end of its second week. Some of the delegations, from Britain's eight constituent commonwealths, began to complain among themselves, then to hint tactfully to their hosts that too many parties were interfering with the business of the conference.* Canada promptly laid on the conference table its first hand of cards, a proposal to shift something between $100,000,000 and $200,000,000 worth of Canadian trade from the U. S. to Great Britain...