Word: complained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Then," he explained last week, "business didn't seem to be coming in. My drivers were beginning to complain that customers told them I shouldn't have fought this case. People were listening to stories in the newspapers against me. My customers wouldn't give my drivers their wash. Then the Laundry Workers International Union tried to demonstrate in front of my plant and I got the police to chase them away. But they went to the next corner and made speeches knocking me every night...
...scholars had no reason to complain of lack of public attention. Scripps-Howard's glib Columnist Westbrook Pegler wrote two pieces about what he referred to as "Highbrows' Old Home Week." A new extension of geometry which made it appear that the whole is not equal to the sum of the parts (see below) served as a pat allusion for an editorial writer commenting on the cordial meeting between Alf Landon and Franklin Roosevelt (see p. 13), for a sportswriter gloating over the winning spurt of the New York Giants. A letter arrived from the editor of Beauty...
Alumni of big Methodist DePauw University complain that in spite of its 1,300 students, its leafy campus in Greencastle, Ind. and its comfortable presidential house, DePauw's presidents consistently resign to become Methodist bishops. Of the six head men DePauw has elected since 1903, four hastily left it in the lurch as soon as Methodism's General Conference beckoned. Last of these was liberal, orotund G. (for Garfield) Bromley Oxnam, newly installed Methodist Bishop of the Iowa and Nebraska area (TIME...
...Harriet" doubtless heard Anatomist Weaver grumble that the 3,000 Confederate cadavers furnished him little new information about anatomy. She doubtless heard him complain about the difficulty of getting good specimens to dissect. She doubtless heard him yearn to be the first anatomist to make a thorough dissection of the human cerebrospinal nervous system from head to heel, from spine to sternum...
...philosophy: "On a cushion which accompanies me everywhere is my philosophy: 'Never complain. Never explain.' Nothing ages a woman like worry or bad temper. . . . Make-up is an art that every woman must learn for herself. There is one element which must always go into it. Plenty of time...