Word: complainingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grain of Dust. Though the father of five daughters, Perkins became a mild misogynist in his dealings with fussy "lady writers" and used to complain wryly of their demands. One of them, whose anonymity he carefully preserved, telephoned him once to say that her cat John Keats was dying and could Perkins get a veterinarian? Another lady author of a book on. Swedish massage horrified him by asking him "just to feel of the muscles of my abdomen...
Koerner's art runs right against the fashion. Most of his contemporaries make "paintings," not "pictures" as Koerner does. To them there is something almost vulgar about the word "picture"-something that smacks of photography. Koerner, they complain, is a mere illustrator, born 100 years too late...
Humphrey rebutted by claiming that state governments failed to carry out their responsibilities when they had them and it ill behooves them to complain...
There are some bad features too, which can hardly be avoided. Visitors, for example, complain that the dining room is unfriendly-looking, that the House is divided into two distinct parts by a wide stretch of lawn, and residents must eat the mass-produced food of the central kitchen, perhaps the most-deserved gripe...
Gentleman v. Hooligan. Among the few sitters to complain of Epstein's handling was Bernard Shaw, whom he has modeled six times. "Here I am a respected Irish gentleman," said Shaw, "and you make me look like a Brooklyn hooligan like yourself." Actually, Epstein was born and raised on Manhattan's Lower East Side, just across the river from Brooklyn. At 22 he made his way to Paris, settled in London three years later. Now a paunchy, patriarchal 69, he lives in an ivied house diagonally opposite Churchill's in Hyde Park Gate...