Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instantly the Speaker touches a button, adjourns the Commons session before Mr. Churchill can speak. He snaps a bitterly sarcastic complaint at the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancashire. Sir John Davidson, who snarls back: "It is remarkable how much you as a private member seem to know about the wishes of the King...
...Labor sympathizer once described Detroit as a "workingman's paradise." Automobile plants are clean, well-ventilated, scientifically lighted and entirely lacking in the sound & fury of, say, a steel mill. The speed of assembly and subassembly lines is not that pictured by Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times. Chief complaint is not the monotony of putting a washer on a bolt or a tire on a wheel eight hours on end but a peculiar nervousness which comes from having to do it within a limited time, even if that time is liberal. It has to be done...
...least potent factor in this orderly demonstration in the interest of unobstructed study has been the attitude of Harvard faculty and alumni. By active complaint and deliberate discussion, representatives of the University have acquired a large following who favor repeal of this obnoxious legislation. The concerted action which swept sixty-one oath supporters out of the Massachusetts legislature is simply a local counterpart of the nationwide defeat of the Hearst type of noise maker. Harvard may give herself a pat on the back for having helped to combat this branch of American demagoguery...
When brought to his attention yesterday, Charles A. Mahady, Superintendent of the Reading Room, put this complaint aside as false, for it was he who instigated the plan for allowing students to leave books downstairs in order to promote, or at least to facilitate, getting to classes on time...
...investigation the complaint proved itself justified and was traced to a misunderstanding. So students may once more leave books downstairs before 9 o'clock, after which they must take them upstairs...