Word: complained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the students complain about such conditions to the hostess, she is apt to reply, "Those are my orders," according to the committee
...authentic) Marianna von Moltke, 46, greying, talkative poesy-minded wife of a professor of Wayne (Detroit's city-owned) University. (The professor is said to be a grandson of Bismarck's famed Prussian strategist. Field Marshal Count von Moltke.) With two sons in Germany, the Countess, Detroiters complain, has tried to interest college students in her pro-Nazi doctrines...
...Lamartine had kicked up a rumpus: the Review mailbag began to swell. A doctor wrote in to complain that the use of hatpins "is an actual and potential hazard to the health of our female population" because scalp abrasions invite invasion by the "bacillus Welchii." A poesy-minded lady in Los Angeles wrote...
...detrimental to [its] health, education and general welfare . . . hours of work are frequently so long as to make the term 'part-time employment' a misnomer . . . employment at night, particularly in unsuitable occupations, may be a factor in the current rise in juvenile delinquency [TIME, Dec. 14]. [Educators] complain that . . . many [employed children] fail to attend school regularly and those who do attend fall asleep . . . many ... become discouraged and drop out of school...
...troubles here just like everybody else, but in spite of everything. I like it. It's a pleasure to work with such a fine bunch of men. Every electron in the school says the same thing. Just ask them. There's only one other thing I have to complain of. Sometimes Professor Wing goes so fast in his lectures, I can't keep up with...