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Word: complainingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...theater managers complain that Hollywood gives good pictures misleading titles. In their trade magazines, the box office men have pointed out that All the King's Men leads some moviegoers to expect a medieval costume piece. Annie Get Your Gun? It sounds like a war picture about women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Better Titles? | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

Nylon shirts and underwear require the simplest of laundering techniques and a medium of drying time, since they do not absorb moisture. Their wearers have been known to complain of a "slimy feeling" long before the end of a summer day. Tee-shirts and light sports shirts win the popularity contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Europe's Pitfalls Full of Excess Baggage | 6/9/1950 | See Source »

...river Jack and Irving Rosenthal, owners of Palisades Amusement Park, have offered him twice as much to go away. Although Howell has refused credit for all rainfall except a storm last Monday, the Rosenthals have had all the demonstration they need. Since he came to town, they complain, "we have not had a single day of sunny weather...

Author: By Daniel Ellsberg, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 6/2/1950 | See Source »

...friend of mine here at the Business School phoned the H.A.A. to complain about being forced to pay for a locker at Weld Boathouse and not being permitted to share one with a friend for the afternoon. He phoned because he had had small regulations inconvenience him so often that he wanted to call the situation to the attention of the H.A.A...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Official Rudeness | 5/23/1950 | See Source »

...shouted into the phone so loudly that everyone in the room at the other end could hear him. He closed by telling the student, who paid for a participation ticket: "You don't have to use our boats. We don't keep them for people like you who complain." He then hung up on the student...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Official Rudeness | 5/23/1950 | See Source »

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