Word: complainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ilya Ehrenburg's "thanks-and-good-bye" letter to the U.S. (TIME, July 8) was thickly spread with applesauce. Soviet Russia's visiting Ehrenburg, who turned off all criticisms of Russia by criticisms of the U.S., had moved even the leftist Nation to complain of this "talented but transparent propagandist." Wrote the New York Herald Tribune's Walter Lippmann: "Surely somewhere in the recesses of [Ehrenburg's] conscience, since he is a highly educated man, a still small voice must be saying that he does not, did not, and cannot write as honestly about...
...annual 1936-38 shipments, in some 38 specified categories. (Canada was already operating under a similar plan.) By mid-August, Britons should have token shipments of artificial silks, costume jewelry, paint, etc. Chief reason for the token shipments is not to please Britons but to please U.S. exporters. They complain that Britons are forgetting brand names and trademarks on which millions in advertising were spent. Now Britons will get just enough to make them remember, not too much to cost Britain dollar exchange she cannot afford...
...atomic bomb seemed to be able to find a whole molecule of comfort in not having it. Last week the illustrated weekly Ogonek ("Glimmer") reported (in all seriousness): "In America psychiatrists are worried about a new disease called Atom Madness. Every day lunatic asylums are receiving several persons who complain that they are beginning to split. Others say that they have discovered a new bomb which will destroy the earth and all the other planets...
...Yankees won eight American League pennants and seven world championships. But sometimes the owners had to worry about Joe. He was a chubby, jut-jawed fellow, quiet, a little distant, sometimes grumpy, the kind of manager who usually waited until next day, and the privacy of his office, to complain about a bonehead play...
...pupils gloomy, nervous, inattentive? Does the teacher complain of eyestrain? It may be the classroom's "schoolhouse-brown" paint. Last week New York's public school system, which adopted pastel shades in 1943, announced a sixth tested classroom color combination: peach and rose...