Search Details

Word: complaints (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Manhattan police court, the Metropolitan Opera's Lauritz Melchior helped to win dismissal of a complaint against the Korn Kobblers, a band of zany musicians. The police charge: the band had been riding along Broadway, making "unnecessary noise" with instruments that included "a pipe, a washboard and something that looked like an inverted spittoon." Testified Melchior: some musicians, like Wagner, are simply ahead of their time. He assured the judge that to his sensitive ear, the Korn Kobblers were "expressing themselves in true American folk music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 14, 1949 | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...This patient's present complaint is diarrhea, nausea, nervous instability and mental depression. He does not suffer from indigestion at the present time . . . has two or three highballs before dinner . . . smokes three or four cigars daily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Very Natural | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Nolan yesterday afternoon questioned John M. Whouley, proprietor of Hazen's. Chao and Roberts were interviewed when they made their complaint...

Author: By Rudolph Kass, | Title: FEPC Probes Student Charges of Job Discrimination at Hazen's | 10/22/1949 | See Source »

...voice resumed its complaint. "Fleas," it said loftily, "have not been known in Le Locle for many years. When the war ended, arrangements were made for French train crews to use the Swiss bunkhouse. Promptly the trouble began. First there were two fleas, then there were four, then they came by the hundreds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWITZERLAND: Long-Distance Call . .. | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...perennial student complaint, expressed in the CRIMSON's "Confidential Guide" each year is directed against the professor or instructor who knows but cannot teach. "Competent but dull," "Knows his stuff but can't put it across," are frequent descriptions. This year for the third time, the Radcliffe Graduate School is making a partial effort to meet this ineptitude...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Training for Teachers | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Next