Word: complain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hamp Kendall, 71, of Caldwell County, N.C., who was mistakenly convicted of murder 42 years ago and served more than nine years before the mistake was discovered, wrote to Governor R. Gregg Cherry to complain of the legend on his "victim's" tombstone, which read: "Lawrence Nelson, robbed and murdered by Hamp Kendall." Said Kendall: "No damned man that is innocent would stand under this slanderous tombstone scandal right where he is trying to make an honest living." The Governor was sympathetic, but said he was powerless...
...from the French of Jean-Paul Sartre by Daniel Taradash; produced by Jean Dalrymple) reached Broadway figuratively picketed by the man who wrote it. Sartre had, on hearsay, denounced the U.S. version as a "vulgar, common melodrama with an anti-Communist bias" (TIME, Dec. 6). Though he might justly complain of a translation and a production that (except for Charles Beyer's brilliant acting) are pretty wooden, Red Gloves itself seems pretty typical Sartre...
...also appears from the letter that the parking space was on Cambridge property, not on Harvard property. This make a fellow curious to know what sort o "trouble" and "expense" got the Master his reserved space. But who am I to complain...
Through her counsel, Samuel H. Cohen, Miss Salot released a statement saying, "At no time did I complain...
...would not complain, my friend," said the manager. "You are lucky to get out on anything...