Word: complains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teaching several years ago, and moved from Hollis Hall, where for a quarter century he held court and stimulated would-be writers by sharpening their interests and widening their contacts. Ill health and advancing years have crippled his frame but left his spirit youthful. He has been known to complain that he comes of long-lived Maine stock, and that his grandfather died at the age of ninety-two, not from sickness or natural causes, but because an elm tree fell upon him and crushed him. Professor Copeland at that age would also still be vigorous...
Would she resist taking an oath of allegiance to the U. S. constitution as a professional? "No", she emphasized, throwing back her black hair, "I have nothing to complain about; I am an American through and through...
Hindemith's Das Unaufhörliche (The Unending) scoffed at the "mines, oil wells, rubber plantations, graves of the mythless white race." Though conservatives complain about his shocking dissonances, Hindemith has always shown a strong sense of form. He can handle counterpoint as well as any man alive. The German Republic, which liked moderns, gave him a medieval tower to live in. The Hochschule in Berlin made him professor of composition. When the Nazis removed Hindemith and tabooed his works because his wife is Jewish, Wilhelm Furtwangler temporarily resigned his posts with the Reich Chamber of Music, the Berlin...
...Scout leader taught him about such minor surgery. Medical schools pay little attention to the subject, medical journals less, medical conventions practically none at all. This gap in a doctor's education made the president of the American College of Surgeons, Dr. Eugene Hillhouse Pool of Manhattan, complain recently. Partly because of Dr. Pool's complaint, mainly because he has a fine, two-fingered feel for medical necessities, Editor Thurston Scott Welton of the American Journal of Surgery last week produced a 416-page issue chock-full with 87 articles about the minor surgery which an ordinary doctor...
...unwritten law at St. Mary's required the new organist to marry his predecessor's wife or daughter. Buxtehude's daughter was so old and ugly that Bach went back to his organ post at Arnstadt. Authorities there began to complain that the congregation could not sing to his "many, wonderful variations" and "strange tonalities." Buxtehude had given Bach a technique instead of a bride...