Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Girl Next Door. In Camden, N.J., Gustav W. Weber sought a divorce on the complaint that he had married the girl next door four years ago-but she went right back to mother on their wedding night, had stayed next door ever since...
...Ante. In Roxbury, Mass., six housewives forfeited $10 each for playing poker on Sunday-on complaint of their husbands...
...York Times, Critic R. L. Duffus examined the commission's complaint that papers judge news by " 'recency or firstness, proximity, combat, human interest and novelty.' . . . Such recommended items as 'decrease of intolerance' or 'increase in the sale of books of biography and history' do get attention when you can put a finger on them. ... A newspaper devoted largely to undramatized 'significant' news would not last long. This is human nature...
Harvard men have such esthetic musical tastes." From the lips of Grace Lyons at McKenna's--and it could just as well have been heard at Briggs and Briggs--the phrase was a complaint. But just a little altered, it might by a shy boast of the Music Department, which rates partial credit for a most astounding revolution in Cantabridgian taste...
These records show, she added, that Bowser filed a complaint with the committee similar to the present action last November, describing a rebuff he received then by the Club management...