Word: plaint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That foreign trade is a losing game, for them at least, is the shipping man's plaint the world around, for the following reasons : 1) there are too many ships; 2) depressions, tariffs and a thousand unpredictables hobble it; 3) profitable trade routes fluctuate as the breeze but commerce demands regular schedules. U. S. shipping men face the added complication that U. S. ships cost more to build and operate than foreign bottoms because of the higher wages of U. S. Labor. Astraddle this situation, which the Government has at last given full recognition after years of such temporizing...
Last week a new group rose to attack the bill on the floor of the House. Their plaint was not its size but its blanket appropriation of one and a half billions to be spent at the President's and Mr. Hopkins' pleasure. The rebels were led by Joe Starnes who demanded that $55,000,000 be earmarked for flood and drought control; Wilburn Cartwright of McAlester, Okla. who demanded $150,000,000 be earmarked for roads; Alfred Beiter of Williamsville, N. Y., who demanded $300,000,000 be earmarked for Public Works. They in turn...
...cause of the confusion was at once to be seen, for the State was bending its car to the plaint of a Citizen. On this morning a big Irish Policeman, the grey of the ulster set off by his apple-red face, was the State, and he leaned over the side of his traffic box to talk with a man of the street. The latter was a well-dressed fellow, and from the puzzled expressions of the two it was clear that the location of some back street was uncertain in their minds. As we passed beneath the symbol...
...best portrait in To My Father is that of Dr. Chastain, whose plaint was always that he could "never understand these people," and whose lack of acceptance of Northern ways made him vulnerable to his enemies. Wrhen he encountered a frightful scandal in the hospital-the chief of staff was supplying maidens to an aged voluptuary-he insisted on exposing it, took the story to the man for whom the virgins were provided. Soon his lack of understanding of the people around him made him see enemies everywhere. He drove away patients by telling them his troubles. But when...
With Fannie Brice, on the other hand, there is practically never cause for com plaint. Her tidbit in this show is her impersonation of a solemn Jewish dancer interpreting "Rewolt" and "de Messes." Plump, ingratiating Comedian Bob Hope (Roberta) is given an amusing song to sing hopelessly to comely Eve Arden (Parade). Vernon Duke wrote the tune; Ira Gershwin the lyric...