Word: complainingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week's hearing, Rayinski's counsel pointed out that the 1839 law under which the musician had been convicted provided that householders could call the cops and complain if street music became obnoxious; in Rayinski's case no such complaint had been registered. The court reversed the conviction...
Oklahoman Hurley furnished a new, intimate glimpse of President Roosevelt in his last days. In March 1945, Hurley testified, he visited Roosevelt to complain of the still-secret concessions made to Russia at Yalta: "... I went to the White House . . . with my ears back and my teeth skinned, to have a fight about what had been done. When the President reached up that fine, firm, strong hand of his to shake hands with me, what I found in my hands was a very loose bag of bones...
Instead of moving to Washington Bundy returned to Harvard as a lecturer in the fall of 1949 where he concentrated on international relations and party politics. Bundy's students consider him as one who "knows his stuff" but who tends toward grandiloquence. Some of them also complain about the length of his reading list, but they might as well get used to this. "If the lists are long," says Bundy, "that is intentional." He thinks the average undergraduate at Harvard is underworked, a thought "reinforced," he says, when he served as an examiner in the government generals. He frequently caries...
Then Chesty Puller caught a plane, flew to his home & family in Saluda, Va. His salty remarks had sent the Pentagon into a close-mouthed swivet, had moved the W.C.T.U. to complain that liquor could leave troops "fuddleduddied." By the time he reached home, Chesty had pulled his chest in, had no more...
...audiences who sometimes complain that they cannot follow the rich accents of British movie stars could read a sprightly retort from the other side last week. Wrote the London Spectator's Film Critic Virginia Graham, in a bittersweet review of Born Yesterday: The stars' performances "leave nothing to be desired-that, at least, is the impression left by this film, an impression which it is extraordinarily clever of it to make seeing that, as it is written in Bronx, only one out of every ten words is comprehensible. I remember once being similarly impressed by a film...