Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Frick's Complaint...
...large Texas has no complaint against its Governess except that she leaves affairs too much in the hands of her husband. Things have been happening, or are said to have been happening, which are laid at his door. For example, the Governess has pardoned or paroled over 1,000 convicts in the ten months she has been in office. (The previous Governor, Pat M. Neff, issued only 17 pardons in his entire term). Her husband is said to have a job as attorney for the Sugarland Railroad that yields him three times as much salary as a governor gets...
...some time been trying to find the secret worm in the present beautiful apple. Even the always optimistic motor makers underestimated just how well cars would sell this year. Many less enthusiastic lines of business have felt for some time that business is "too good"-a practically new complaint...
...International Playhouse promises to present drama of various lands-one of them America-in a native setting and spirit. One doubts very much if The Bridge of Distances is particularly Chinese. Which, after all, would have caused only scattering complaint if it had been interesting...
...year to abandon the competitive method of selecting cheer leaders, it did so because dissatisfaction had been voiced in many quarters against the results obtained under the traditional method of having major sports captains lead cheers. No sooner were the changed plans made known than a new species of complaint arose. Harvard stands were to be edified by all the gymnastic absurdities of jumping jacks said these new critics. From all indications, such fears are without justification. No radical innovations are wanted in Harvard cheering and none are contemplated. The competition begins today and its first results will be seen...