Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Snowmen of all sexes appeared around the College. Members of the Cooperative house at 3 Sacramento St. fashioned a 12-foot statue of a nude kneeling woman which drew a neighbor's complaint. University police approved the statue, and a member of the Cambridge squad termed it "a work of art," adding "it would be a shame to tear it down." The storm also stopped construction work on Quincy House and the new Leverett Towers, and shut down the Radcliffe administration office. Though the University held classes as usual, many 'Cliffies, fearing the long walk, stayed in bed. The Coop...
...said the lawyer, "you have alleged in your complaint that your husband has treated you in a cruel and inhuman manner." "Well," came the soft, well-rehearsed response, "my husband has become interested in another woman.'' When the five-minute colloquy in a Los Angeles court ended, the 3½-year marriage of Cineminx Debbie Reynolds and Crooner Eddie Fisher was over. Except for the property settlement and alimony. Eddie was free, although under California law he may not marry the other woman, Actress Elizabeth Taylor, until the divorce becomes final after a year. But freedom...
...Armed now with sample case and blueprints instead of howitzer and battle plans, West Germany's businessmen are aggressively pushing ahead with a more realistic version of the old "Drive to the East." In Beirut last week the beaming manager of the local Volkswagen agency had only one complaint: he could not get cars shipped in from Germany fast enough to meet Lebanese demand. In northeast Iran 250 West German engineers and technicians roamed the hills busily drawing up plans for factories, power plants and municipal water systems...
James A. Coulter IG, a teaching fellow in Classics arraigned Feb.8 on charges of drunkenness, won acquittal yesterday in Boston Municipal Court. In addition, a Court judge issued a complaint against the arresting officer in a preliminary hearing...
...Human Scratch-Pad" and dermographia [extreme sensitivity of the skin-Jan. 19]: as a long sufferer of this complaint, I thought you might be interested in knowing that it had one positive aspect for me. When I was younger, nothing quite so impressed a girl on a day at the beach as emblazoning her name on my forearm in bright, raised letters. It served to cement a number of relationships. Alas, the girls get older and wiser (and more difficult to impress), and dermographic penmanship no longer does the trick...