Word: complains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...complain about the midsummer doldrums in literature. It is barely possible that you may be helping to cause these doldrums. Many of your readers might be interested to know about a best-selling novel called Dragon Harvest...
There were several more. Of them all, only Edda was now in the public view. Her interviewers brusquely asked: What had she to complain of? Did not her comfortable detention place her in a special position? Edda flared with her old fire: "I have always been in a special position," she snapped. "In the end, it will be in a very special position that I will be shot...
...again asked Congress for the Murray "Full Employment" bill-which even New Deal columnists like Ernest Lindley complain is grossly misnamed, because its only concrete provision is to budget the national production, employment and income. Again he asked for a permanent Fair Employment Practices Committee, for supplementing State unemployment compensation by boosting payments to a $25-for-26-weeks maximum. He bluntly called the 40? minimum-wage level "obsolete"-a follow-up on the disclosure by Economic Stabilizer William H. Davis that the Government hopes to raise real wages by 40% to 50% without, by some economic magic, raising prices...
...rich merchant, who gives the boy new clothes, then sends him on a mission, a sort of knightly quest. On his triumphant return, the merchant adopts him as a son or ward, discomfits the wicked suitor and settles a little fortune on the hero. Moralists used to complain that this fortune was gained by pure luck. On the contrary, it was gained by the hero's discovery of the place and parentage that were his by right...
Some of his competitors complain that occasionally Weegee's pictures are posed. Weegee vigorously denies it, with a story of how he learned a lesson: photographing a shoeshine boy one day, he asked a passerby to put a foot on the stand; after developing the picture, he discovered that the man had rubbers on. Says Weegee: ''That ends posing pictures, I says to myself...