Word: complains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the county solicitor could complain of, however, was the gentleman's reputation. He, Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, is notorious as, but not legally recorded as, the fattest spider in the web of Chicago's criminal underworld. All that the Miami officials could do was explain to Mr. Capone that people did not like his looks and advise him to leave town. Mr. Capone, who has been ordered and ushered out of Los Angeles, Kansas City and many another city besides his own Chicago,* told the Miamians that he had done no wrong and would leave Miami...
...competitive examination paper may feel that he is contributing as directly to the college's glory as the halfback who scores a winning touchdown in the big game of the season. If the experiment receives the publicity it seems destined to attract, the brilliant student also can no longer complain that his efforts are unrewarded by outside attention...
Chicago, like New York, like many another U. S. city, clamors for Home Rule, against a State legislature controlled by rural representatives. More than 50% of the U. S. population is urban. One generation more, prophesy the experts, and two-thirds of the population will be urban. Urban communities complain that control by country men, ignorant of city problems, is intolerable. Where city controls country, farmers are equally vexed. Most of the States, says Professor Merriam, are the anachronistic creatures of surveyors' chains. "The nation and the city are vigorous organs. . . . The truth is that the State is standing...
...Duce are the arguments of the strong, but not strong arguments." The liberal Neue Freie Presse exclaimed rhetorically: "Your words, Signor Mussolini, can only mean that you consider yourself strong and us weak. . . . Then why refuse us the only right which the weak have-namely, the right to complain...
Having thus spoken, he had no cause to complain when the German press took occasion, last week, to flay him. Thundered the Berliner Zeitung am Mittag...