Word: complains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, 76, senescent strong man and ex-publisher (True Story, Physical Culture), was still fighting for a divorce after 15 years' separation from his wife Mary. He appeared in a Miami court, in sky-blue sports jacket with matching suspenders, to complain that the onetime London beauty champion (1912) had let her figure get completely out of hand: "I wanted her to be an example of my work and a credit...
...Chinese had never complained publicly about the smallness of the assistance they had received but after that statement by Mr. Churchill, a Chinese official spokesman in Chungking called in the newspaper reporters the next day, not to complain even then, but merely to set the record straight. He told them just how much aid the Chinese had received from America. It was the amount required to keep one American division in the field for one week...
Occasionally the listeners complain. After a program on food rationing, one wired: "You are supposed to sell wax [Johnson's]." Another complained: "It's already been rammed down our throats without you yapping . . . about...
Minor Difficulties. As business boomed, Promoter Bell began talking of expanding his empire. More recently, he has begun to complain that "they" are persecuting him "just as they have always perse cuted those who believed in God and the Golden Rule." California businessmen indeed have begun to glance nervously in his direction...
...commercial "plugs." The unloved commercials' aggressive defender was Ralph Smith, general manager of Duane Jones Co., an ad agency that puts some 2,000 commercials on the air every week-mostly for soap and patent medicines. In a letter to the New York Times, Smith asserted "Persons who complain about commercials are, as a rule, disgustingly healthy or so strongly fortified financially that grocery bills are no problem. Frankly, commercials are not written for such as these...