Word: plaint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...differently than she promised. When she told me how she cut him up, it just made me sick. The way we talked it over, Evelyn was to put Erv to sleep, strangle him and throw him in the lake." Headline: PAID FOR A NEAT "LAKE JOB," IS HER PLAINT...
...plaint is not that you picked Roosevelt . . . but that your reasons for doing so were the silliest that have ever blotted TIME'S pages. You picked Roosevelt, because, forsooth, more people than ever before voted the straight Democratic ticket. Why . . . didn't you say simply that you picked Roosevelt as ''Man of the Year" because, in spite of the tremendous pressure under which he labored, he has remained the same cultured, affable, and above all, sane gentleman that was elected President in 1932, and who during 1934 has done his level best to pull the country...
Graduate architects he employed by the carload. With the great building program of the New Deal well under way, there were nearly 1,700 of them hunched over draughting boards in the Supervising Architect's office. That fact has been the latest plaint of private architects against the Administration. It was a New Deal promise in April of 1934 that all Public Works projects costing over $60,000 would be awarded to private architects. Last month President Ralph Thomas Walker of the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects charged that this was not being done, sent official...
...Davis presided at the hearing. The dry-cleaners were read a decision just handed down in a New Jersey State court, permitting the NRA to enjoin a cleaner from cutting prices, on the grounds that "no citizen has any right in this emergency" to defy his industrial code. Chief plaint heard by the Compliance Director was that cash-&-carry cleaners were required to charge their customers the same rates as call-&-deliver cleaners. In chorus the cash-&-carriers squealed that they were being ruined...
...been said, suffers today from his past predominance. Too much success is bad for a popular hero; Robert Emmett is better loved than O'Connell. There is little in the comparative prosperity of the Free State to catch a national ear attuned to the death keen and the patriotie plaint. The appeal of De Valera arouses memories that obliterate the economic connection of Ireland and England...