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Word: gripings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...earnings from concerts, radio and records might come to $75,000, but expenses would "cut my gross income in half." Also, she told the Saturday Evening Post, "there is a little man with a big book down at the Internal Revenue office-but who am I to gripe about taxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Personal Approach | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

...features too, which can hardly be avoided. Visitors, for example, complain that the dining room is unfriendly-looking, that the House is divided into two distinct parts by a wide stretch of lawn, and residents must eat the mass-produced food of the central kitchen, perhaps the most-deserved gripe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Large Rooms, Good Views Make Winthrop Liked By Active, Athletic, Apathetic | 3/24/1950 | See Source »

...years as a hit play in New York. The road company which brought the last to Boston Monday night has done nothing to break the string. This production, even without the superb acting of Henry Fonda and his Broadway confreres, is a fine show from the first gripe to the final curse...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 3/8/1950 | See Source »

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