Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...complaint may seem picayune. I find in this week's copy of TIME several pages of advertisements inserted ahead of the reading matter. It looks to me as if TIME, too, is becoming commercialized...
...complaint is, of course, relative. Alice Brady is so incomparably better as a comedienne than dozens of other actresses that her presence on the stage is a tonic. But she is so much better doing other things that the self comparison will not be downed...
...Duke of York twitted "Tay Pay." He had, he said, heard only one complaint about him and that was that he was willing to do everything for Ireland except live there...
TIME is frank with itself; TIME is likewise frank with its readers. Frankness breeds discontent at times; discontent brings complaint, sometimes valid, more often invalid. TIME, in its unique way, says things at times that hit home with a bang-its criticisms are harsh -its adjectives ever are pointed as daggers- it portrays the world a bit cynically yet interestingly-it sees good in some, bad in others, worse in a few, and in so doing pacifies the thinker and makes the gullible thing. That is a mighty achievement; certainly it should overshadow the minor errors that too often arouse...
...Negro is a more sensual man than the white man and at the same time he is far more offensive to white women than a white man is. The little acts of familiarity that would pass unnoticed in a white man, becomes with white women the cause of complaint against the Negro. This special Negro division was already charged with 15 cases of rape...