Word: plaintes
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...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...
...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...