Word: complained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Most wives complain that their bedroom is too small; 26 claustrophobic wives said it interfered with their sleep. A common bedroom complaint of husbands: stumbling over furniture...
Little Ben yelled his indignation. Ushers rushed to silence him. Tante Chasha smote them hip & thigh with her umbrella. "He's a bright boy," she roared, "and he's got a right to complain. . . ." "Mrs. Swernofsky," begged the manager, "I am really surprised. ... I must ask you to apologize." Tante Chasha shattered the remains of her umbrella on the manager's head. Then she whisked little Ben away. "Remember what I tell you," she said. "That's the right way to apologize...
...State seven points up on God, three up on Woodrow Wilson. But most Americans accepted these lofty abstractions as the noble aspirations of a sincere, high-principled man. If the President's and the State Department's deeds matched Cordell Hull's words, no one could complain that the U.S. has no foreign policy...
Chief gripe of WACs at home is now that they are stuck. Said Corporal Sara Sykes at Fort Oglethorpe: "We practically drool when we hear of someone going overseas." They complain that C.O.s do not always give them enough to do. Old soldiers fear that the busy WACs are on the way to end forever the enlisted soldiers' time-honored practice of "gold bricking...
...Kunitz uses a technique probably unique in U.S. higher education: he writes out his lectures, has them approved by his administrative chief before he reads them to his students. The students complain that the reading of lectures is not very stimulating...