Word: complains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...field at night, crept close to listen; a terrible glimpse of a man whose nose had been blown away, breathing through two red rubber tubes that gave him the appearance of an insect; a description of a nurse who, in a world of dying men, began to complain of an earache. The Diary of Our Own Samuel Pepys is a two-volume affair running to 1,271 pages, covering the period from June 7, 1911 to Dec. 31, 1934. Since it was written by Franklin Pierce Adams for his Always in Good Humor and Conning Tower columns...
Mulattoes' Hearts. Mulattoes, even if their heart arteries are stiff as clay pipes, do not complain of angina pectoris, owing simply to their "inability to correctly interpret and describe the pain sensation rather than to lack of mental stress and strain as suggested frequently in the past." Such was the finding of Drs. Emmet Field Horine, 50, & Morris M. Weiss, 34, of Louisville...
...successful impresarios often refer to "Gallo luck." (His name means "Lucky Rooster.") But Gallo believes more in hard work and frugality. He pays his routine singers $85 per week, thus can afford to keep his seat prices low. Even at such wages the singers sing often. And if they complain of their schedules, Gallo can always remind them of the hours he has worked since he arrived in the U. S.. an immigrant of 17 who had lost all but 12? shooting craps in the steerage...
...inventory of the proficiencies which made him a stage star for ten years before civilized dancing reached the cinema. The picture contains a dance on a sanded rug, designed as a lullaby for the lady (Ginger Rogers) who lives on the floor below and who has gone upstairs to complain about the tap-dance that preceded it; an elaborate routine with male chorus, copied from one Astaire did in Smiles in 1930; a pretentious "Piccolino," which may or may not turn out to be the "Continental" of 1935-36. Possibly more ingratiating than any of these is an informal scene...
Slowly through the winter, while the meat supply was dwindling, the price to the consumer was creeping up. By February housewives everywhere began to complain (TIME, Feb. 25). Resentment boiled into a one-day consumers' strike in Los Angeles where 10,000 housewives boycotted their butchers, forced them to cut meat prices 5? a lb. For a time all was quiet. Last week a housewives' boycott broke out again, this time in New York City...