Word: complains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Great too are the dangers of laxatives, purgatives and cathartics.* On the household medicine shelf is the array of epsom salts, castor oil and compound cathartic pills or their masked coordinates. The housewife has learned from a long chain of gossips to use these whenever any of her progeny complain of stomach ache, and as a rule she is safe in their use, for the really serious stomach and intestinal disorders are comparatively rare...
...upon itself to break Brookton tradition with a parody number of the Police Gazette. Such obvious decadence of discretion is incredible. As President Pringle himself remarked on reading the number. "I do not understand this at all." We do not understand it either. The police have good reason to complain. But better days may come, corruption may breed incoruption and Brockton clear this blot from its shield. In the meantime the Blimp must do its best to correct its fault by a real, clean, good number...
...appeared on the stage in our red flannels and coonskins (I wish I had a coonskin) the management would probably complain," she concluded aggrievedly...
...While there is practically no complaint against the actual service given to the students by these waiters, or against the waiters' punctuality, those in charge do complain that the feeling of responsibility of the waiters toward their work leaves something to be desired, in that they have shown a tendency to cut or quit work without due warning...
...they pay a $500 bonus for catching a rich man violating the liquor statutes, where the "unwritten law" and the "hip-pocket move" as defenses for killers still bulk large in the eyes of the courts, where they impeach a Governor, elect his wife to the office, and then complain because she follows his advice,--in Texas, they don't believe in evolution either. A dispatch yesterday from the Lone Star State throws light on the mental processes of Texans and their beliefs and disbeliefs...