Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radiocrooner, said to be a libelous few to consist entirely of 98 pounds of tubercular lung, was rejected for a complaint many of his listeners spotted back in the summer: a punctured ear drum. Thus, as it must come to all men, lost hope came to Frank, who had fondly confided in a draft board teacher that he wanted to be a marine...
...complaint that the U.S. had put up more than its share of oil to fight World War II ignored the fact that war cannot be fought solely on the basis of who owns what. If-before the Mediterranean was opened-the United Nations had adopted a policy of using oil according to the size and wealth of a country, far less oil would have reached the battlefronts...
...potato in her hand. In Tosca, when Antonio Scotti stooped to pick up the paint brush beneath Cavaradossi's easel, he had to yank at it for minutes-Caruso had nailed it to the floor. Caruso's most celebrated peccadillo led to his arrest on the complaint of a Mrs. Hannah Graham who had run into him at the Central Park Zoo and testified breathlessly: "He insulted me. He brushed against me three times, maybe four times. He . . . He . . ." Caruso was tried for disorderly conduct before an adoring throng in a Yorkville court, found guilty and fined...
...Defense. W. T. Grant's answer to OPA's complaint concentrated on this manifest absurdity. The answer pointed out that under MPR-330, 37 Grant stores are forbidden to sell a $10.98 coat that 401 others could still carry because they never sold coats before. Just for good measure, the defense also alleged that the whole Price Control Act, not to mention MPR-330, violates the Fifth ("due process") Amendment of the Constitution...
Helpmeets. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Robbie Emerson complained that her husband made long-distance telephone calls to her, collect, and never said a word. She won a divorce on the ground of cruelty. In Minneapolis, John Hilton Stiles won one on the complaint that his wife lived with a dozen rattlesnakes, a number of copperheads, coral snakes and water moccasins, a 9-ft. Indian python, a Siamese hooded cobra, an African green mamba...