Word: complains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Indirectly, this same advice is given by Countess de Forceville and Marjorie Kern. One of the things that worry them most about modern marriage is the tendency of husbands & wives to complain about each other in public. Countess de Forceville, whose book is aimed at more sophisticated members of the middle generation, gives several hints on what a wife can do when her husband bawls her out before friends. She can ask him to tell his best story. If that does not work, she can answer back. Or she can become completely silent, or-"this is a blow between...
...terrible but not evil and that there is no redemption except by blood, have as hollow a ring as a master of irony could give them. They are heard only as they soop into a pub, where a bartender and a prostitute occasionally listen. But when the British soldiers complain of the sniping, the answer. "Do you want us to come out in our skins and throw stones?" is almost happy, pugnacious patriotism...
...spite of a continual campaign to get in new blood, a fairly constant band of professional "slick paper" magazine writers who make from $5,000 to $250,000 a year at their trade. Incorrigible highbrows criticize the Post's taboos (par for middle-class conception of decency anywhere), complain that in its non-fiction no intellectual rivers are ever set afire, in its fiction no Buddenbrooks appear among the Clarence Buddington Kellands. This is old stuff to Editor Stout's staff. Nowadays they respond simply by handing out a reprint of Bernard DeVoto's sensible piece...
...only complain to a court, which may bring charges...
...multiplying battles" and outbreaks of Arab nationalism are "more like a contagion than a directed movement," decided Mrs. McCormick. "The aggravating factor in the French colonies, according to the French residents, is the policy of the Popular Front Government (in Paris). . . . French merchants interviewed by this correspondent complain bitterly that agitators from France, representing the Government in power, are inciting the natives to throw off the yoke of France. . . . Mayor Rozis of Algiers, a colonial administrator for 30 years and a consistent friend of the Arabs . . . declared ... in an open letter to Premier Chautemps that the weakness and demagogy...