Word: complained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Relations between U.S. and British and other Allied forces are most excellent in London. They amiably crowd the same corner pubs, complain about prices at the Savoy and Ritz, jostle each other in Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square. In Hyde Park, baseball and softball games are now an evening institution. British civilians gather enthusiastically, but do not understand the game and cheer in the wrong places...
...your Letters column, April 13, a Mr. Daniels and a Mrs. Thomas complain of the current day-late deliveries of TIME in their particular sections. I am amused, and write not to complain but in hopes that Mr. Daniels and Mrs. Thomas may find some consolement in this: My four April issues of TIME were delivered on May 26 and they have been coming in this manner since December. Just keep throwing TIME in the mailbag each week and I'll thank you for it no matter when it finds...
...Should the cause be sought by either, it lies purely and simply in the fact that the Yard is being turned over to the Navy for a Radio Communication School. Gone also for Freshmen will be the Harvard Union, where so many of their forebears have first learned to complain about College food...
There was reason to worry: to the White House went many a New Deal Senator, to complain that Henderson refused to consider their patronage demands. The whole Senate stewed-90,000 jobs, and not a plum for them...
...resulted in the granting of then-revolutionary trade-union rights in the midst of World War I, there is now political quiet. The 100%-profits tax, making employers relatively generous with wages, leaves firebrands little besides absentee ownership and shipyard discipline to protest about. For their part, shipyard owners complain about "absenteeism"-workers occasionally take a day off just for the hell...