Word: complainingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back in its envelope to be answered by his five-woman staff. Surprisingly little of his mail conies from Georgia-George's constituents seem to be reluctant to take up his time. While the Senate was in recess one summer, a Vienna lumber dealer drove 200 miles to complain to George's colleague, Richard Russell, about trouble with war orders. Russell asked why the man had come all that way, since he lived just a few blocks from George in Vienna. The reply: "Oh, we wouldn't think of bothering the Senator with things like this...
...Once a week you swagger in with a paycheck") to the college (president to professor: "Nonsense, Professor, you don't need a raise . . . You're too absent-minded to drive a car, too intelligent to want television, and too preoccupied to hear your wife complain"). From Little Acorns. Chicago-born Cartoonist Lichty has been making a living at a drawing board ever since he graduated from the University of Michigan ('29), after editing the college humor magazine. The Chicago Times hired him, and in 1932 he drew his first "Grin and Bear It." The cartoon struck such...
Modern composers usually complain that art is long and cash is short. But a ready way for a young composer to keep body and soul in a decent kitchenette apartment is to act like the girl who wants to be Miss America: enter all the contests...
...merely cooling his heels in the great man's anteroom. "Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door, during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain . . . without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor." A patron, Johnson bitterly declared in the Dictionary, is "one who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is paid with flattery...
However, Author Stevenson would probably not complain about a sequel, and children under ten, for whom this picture is presumably intended, most assuredly will...