Word: complainings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days. Its purpose is to prevent you from voting illegally more than once. At the last election it is estimated that 50% of the voters 'repeated.' If you have been tattooed anywhere except inconspicuously on the palm of the right hand you possess the right to complain to the municipality...
...huddle is a perfectly proper and sportsmanlike means of introducing into the game the element of surprise, without which it would be stupid beyond words. The spectators for whom the game is made interesting ought certainly to be the last to complain if a few moments are required to set the stage for the thrill producers. Until a better means of achieving surprise is evolved, the huddle has come to stay...
...example, is not as large as it once was; we have no game to put on the table, and the range of other meats is very small. The perennial problem of the housewife is to plan the next day's meal to be such that her family will not complain of the lack of variety. The same is true, on a larger scale, of the restaurant owner, and especially of the proprietor of a college eating place, where the trade is the same every...
Cognoscenti complain as cognoscenti will. All is not flawless at the Metropolitan Opera House. There are many weaknesses. Excellent ensembles, a good German wing, equal to pre-War times, a wise choice of novelties to please the epicures?these are pleasant, surely, but then there exists a tendency to quantity production, to wear out the orchestra and singers: there is no French wing to speak of, no chance for the American artist. He makes no excuses, that imperturbable impresario with his thumbs in his armpits. But he knows, and others know, that for such a polyglot community there...
...events the pragmatists can stand forth in the glory of his reasoning and complain. There is not a moving, vital, creative play here with the possible exception of the "Jazz Singer", Nor would it pay to bring one. Bostonians prefer the faded glories of second rate editions of the "Follies" to a piece of art, no matter how worthwhile. So the Harvard student can buy a book and read until college opens or play bridge. His theatrical reflexes must be dominated until his next vacation. He is in Boston...