Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exhaust. For 32 years the Colemans had been Quaker missionaries in Japan. They had steeped themselves in Japanese Bushido, the ethical code of the samurai which prescribes harakiri for those facing shame. Learning that Clara B. McGill, a destitute young girl whom the Colemans had sheltered, had made a complaint that Horace Coleman Jr. had betrayed her, they left a note: "This way accords with our peculiar ideas in cases where conditions warrant it." In Mrs. Coleman's lap was an open Bible and directions that their ashes be scattered under the trees at their summer home in Karuizana...
Divorced, Arthur McKinne Stires, Manhattan architect, third son of Episcopal Bishop Ernest Milmore Stires of Long Island; by Catherine Wilcox Stires, Southern socialite; in Reno. On a cross-complaint to Architect Stire's suit alleging "extreme cruelty," Mrs. Stires charged that for a year her husband had provided "nothing by way of food, shelter or clothing...
...Polish-Danzig relations are far from satisfactory. They present a picture of a chaotic maze of complaint, dispute and litigation that obscures the true meanings of these relations...
Disgruntled Russians complain to the Workers' & Peasants' Inspection, a nationwide organization through which Josef Stalin keeps his finger on Russia's 148,000,000 pulses. Last week the Complaint Bureau of Workers' & Peasants' Inspection announced that April 9-14 will be "Complaint Week," urged all citizens to complain, particularly of any negligence on the part of local officials of Workers' & Peasants' Inspection itself. During Complaint Week, declared the announcement, a "mass complaint meeting" will be held at every factory and on every collective farm in Russia...
...millionaries have been my patients during the past year. All of them have been cases of arrested development. The people who do the great work of the world are usually desperately unhappy. Inferiority complexes disguished under a superior attitude drive them constantly to work but achievement cannot satisfy their complaint. The senior Mr. Morgan was a tangle of intricate complexes, and the case of Ivar Kruger testifies to the truth of this discovery...