Word: complains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Long range bull sessions are not so colorful as the discussions conducted in college rooms, the broadcasters complain, since the Federal Communications Commission slaps a $5000 fine on any amateur heard "swearing" or using "indecent language." As a result, one student calls most of his radio conversations "extremely dull...
This year some 140 pantomimes are playing in Great Britain. They are at their broadest and, in an old-fashioned way, at their best, in the provinces. In London the best of the revue artists take part, but panto-purists complain that the old fairy tales and the old simplehearted clowning are ever more laggingly interrupted by variety turns of performing dogs, conjurers, acrobats and midgets...
...most of the Herald's profits came from its fat German and Italian shipping and resort advertising, and the Paris edition shamelessly toadied to the Nazis and Fascists-while its New York superiors were stoutly antitotalitarian. Newsmen might complain or quit, but its late editor, Laurence Hills, could always find enough reporters on the town to fill the gaps. Finally, in 1939, Hills began to write scathing frontpage, anti-Hitler editorials. Expatriate Americans were heading for home, and the Herald's 35,000 circulation plummeted to less than 10,000. On June 12, 1940, Managing Editor Eric Hawkins...
Nightclub checks at Giro's and Sans Souci often run into three figures, and if the waiter adds a 20 for himself, few complain. Last week a shipload of Rolls-Royce limousines was en route from England to retail at $13,000. All were spoken for-including one for President Alem...
Coach Poley Guyda has had nothing to complain about in the play of his team, but he feels that this afternoon's game will be the toughest his team has faced all season. "I think we have a good team and a good chance...