Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...permission to telephone a New York Daily News photographer. Miss Belmont, who was wearing a white sweater that day, assented. When the photographer arrived, Miss Belmont placed her hands behind her head, elbows out, swayed back happily, and smiled for a new photograph. But she still held to the complaint her lawyer had made in his letter to Harvest House. Its legal basis: her privacy had been invaded...
...other major change in the local life has been the installation of new company officers. Dick Harris, Elmah Hanneken and Red English have graciously assumed the duties of guiding our faltering footsteps for this term. The only complaint so far is that our footsteps, especialy in ranks, seem more faltering now that Ens. Harris, known at present as the "Tooele Terror," has instituted his syncopated cadence...
Most Canadians at home had known or suspected all along that their Army in Western Europe was Canadian in name only. They did not get huffy now that the news was out. Said the Halifax Herald: the complaint is "entirely understandable...
Veto by Five. Most important was the official version of the Security Council voting rules adopted by the Big Three (TIME, Feb. 19). The votes of seven of the eleven members of the Council are necessary for any action. Any nation, however small, may bring up a complaint for world discussion. If the complaint is against one of the Council's eleven members-even one of the Big Five-that country must abstain from both the discussion and the voting. In other words, any seven members of the Council may draw an indictment...
...Gerald David Lascelles (rhymes with tassels), 20, nephew of Britain's George VI, was praised by his regimental sergeant major as a democratic, model soldier. There was only one complaint against Private Lascelles: his superiors could not persuade him to make the usual $4-a-week allotment to his mother, the Princess Royal...