Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subscriber, reader, and admirer of TIME. I am also a subscriber, "looker," and admirer of LIFE. There are, I am certain, many more throughout the world. I want to register one complaint, however. The two magazines come too close together, sometimes by the same mail. In such cases I am like the proverbial ass standing between two haystacks of equal attractiveness. Wouldn't it be possible to have LIFE come earlier in the week? I believe many subscribers would appreciate this...
This rather adverse comparison of the 1760's to our day should not be construed as a complaint against, or a fault of Jaue Austen's novel and its dramatization by Helen Jerome. In the light of its own day it is a very pleasant sentimental comedy, and, after all, we must judge it from that angle. The cast, though not phenomenal by any means, does a definitely satisfactory job. Robert Conness as the beefy-complexioned country gentleman, Mr. Bennet, handles his three twittering daughters and their erratic mother in the masterful fashion of a staid old Englishman. His wife...
...Flagstad sang Isolde with the miraculous freshness they had learned to expect from her. They were grateful to Manager Johnson for brushing up the ragged Met orchestra. When he began last fortnight to put on some of his second-string operas, critics sharpened their pencils and found cause for complaint...
Much of the complaint fell upon the pretty Belgian head of Vina Bovy, the coloratura soprano who stepped into the part of Gilda in Rigoletto 24 hours before the performance when Stella Andreva caught a cold. Critics had liked her better four days earlier when she made her Metropolitan debut singing Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata. Even then they felt a little uneasy about her pitch. In Rigoletto her colorless, inexact rendition of the great Caro Nome and her literal, lifeless acting convinced few that she was the outraged, unhappy daughter of a court fool. Lawrence Tibbett...
Things were getting pretty desperate. Finally came the request for "I Don't Want to Go to Bed." "Well, well," said the announcer, "Roger Merriman voices a cheerful complaint "I Don't Want to Go to Bed.' Well, stick with us, old boy. Sorry we haven't your record...