Word: complain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...captious might complain that there are no trained seals in the show, but there is everything else. Two or three of the acts are very good: Walter Nilsson cavorting madly on a monocycle, Hal Sherman pantomimes dancing adroitly while looking as awkward as Charlie Chaplin. But most of the acts are very bad: all the skits, a Turkish harem number, a roguish sister act performed by two girls each of whom looks like the other's mother...
...that workers were equal with the rich, he carried a mattress, white sheets, wore silk pajamas, and one derisive titter at this display was worth a titterer's life. Brooding one time over a ludicrously unfounded case of discrimination, he asked Stoyan, the gang's spokesman, to complain to President Wilson. Then Stoyan refused, this giant lost a lot of faith in democracy, left the gang in sad disgust. What most amazed Stoyan was that a gang of Balkan peasants could lay a track good enough to carry the Northern Pacific's Fast Mail. In his bunk...
...authors of Were We Guinea Pigs? though critical, are not cynical about their school. They complain that a few of their courses were disappointing, admit that a student without initiative may "slide along," object that at times some of their friendly teachers "have tended to become a little too personal...
...past few years I have worked many thousands of hours overtime under great tension and the strain has had its effect. I do not regret those hours, nor complain of them. . . . I was offered an opportunity to turn to writing as a profession. That made me realize my duty to my family and that for their sake I must try to better establish my financial position. . . . The welfare and the glory of the Federal Bureau of Investigation will always be uppermost in my mind. . . . "Leon G. Turrou...
...book till his eyes popped, found it "sensual, gross, profane, vulgar." It seemed a parlous thing to Mr. Huselton that the author of such a work should be instructor at the Kansas City Art Institute. Round to the Institute's board of governors pattered prim Mr. Huselton to complain. Last week, when the question of renewing Benton's teaching contract came up, not one governor present moved for renewal...