Word: complained
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Saratsi Minister Johnson visited millet fields that had been swept clear of grain by rats. The Saratsi farmers, crafty little people, did not complain. They told Mr. Johnson that they hunted out the rats' holes, stole the grain the industrious rats had harvested...
...that can raise a drunk scene to high art, and the latter one who makes no pretensions as to art but who can get far more whole-hearted laughs than a score of ordinary musical comedy wise-crackers Mr Ziegfeld has given his faithful public nothing to complain of as far as the personal of "Smiles" is concerned...
...York Central R. R. threw a solid bridge across the Croton where it empties into the Hudson. Surviving Van Cortlandts now complain that this bridge blocks boats passing up the Croton to their estate. Last spring a judge ruled that the railroad must replace its structure with a drawbridge, but before he could sign his decree he died. Therefore last fortnight Mrs. Isabel R. Mason and the Misses Catherine Van Cortlandt Mathews and Anne S. Van Cortlandt, now occupants of the family manor house, appeared in the White Plains Supreme Court to recommence their suit against the railroad. Clad...
...justly famous. These hops are held three times a week during the camp season, and are always well attended. They lack, of course, the noisy gaiety and informality of college dances, but more than redeem the loss in color and tradition. At least the numerous fair visitors never complain of the lack of life in the parties. After all, nothing can compare with Cullom balcony under a full summer moon, dotted with quiet couples--splendidly gowned women and cadets in white starched uniforms--caught in the spell of dreamy music and the Hudson sweeping by in the moonlight far below...
Astonished at the outcome of his game, the judge ruled: "The accused is acquitted. The court may not judge in a sphere where science remains undecided. . . . No one has a right to complain if, going to a clairvoyant, he does not learn the truth, even as no one ought to find fault if he does not draw the winning number in a lottery...