Word: complained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wrote this last tribute to her memory: "She became a legend in her old age; but of that I have nothing to say; for we did not meet, and, except for a few broken letters, did not write; and she never was old to me. Let those who may complain that it was all on paper remember that only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love...
...Coolidge] appears, there, as a man who has thought out and arrived at a clear, a well ordered, rather narrow, if you like, but entirely consistent set of convictions about the functions of the President. ... It turns out that what his [President Hoover's] critics complain about is that Mr. Hoover is indecisive and hesitant about dealing with political issues and extraordinarily fertile, impulsive and energetic in trying to influence matters that lie outside the duties of his realms and his powers...
...make ends meet. He had a job in the foreign exchange department of a London bank and a wife and a daughter. Somehow the yawning abyss of inevitable paupery which gaped between his small salary and his household expenses grew wider & wider. Soon one of his creditors would complain to the bank and then nothing would be left for him but the Poor House. Into this unhappy scene, unexpectedly, comes a forgotten nephew from Australia. He is fairly prosperous, alone in the world. When Mr. Marble plunges instantly and shamelessly into discussing money matters with him, the nephew is revolted...
...think we want any of her progeny in this community . . . not the kind of stuff that makes good citizens . . . shiftless . . . little moral stamina though she knows the difference between right and wrong." She said that the family is "low-brow," and "riff-raff. . . . Neighbors complain that the children are a nuisance with their marauding habits and the family is unspeakably dirty...
...conferred upon him by James J. Jeffries after the latter had retired and Hart had knocked out Jack Root of Chicago. After eight months Hart lost to Tommy Burns in a 20-round fight at Los Angeles. Out of his championship he realized only $10,000, lived to complain: "I was born 20 years too soon...