Word: backhandedness
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As the fairy godmother of Fascist Germany, Fascist Italy could make no open remonstrance. In fact Italian newspapers started attacking exiled Albert Einstein last week and Il Duce himself assured the Italian people that there was no truth in stories of anti-semitic attacks in Germany. But Mussolini took a...
At meetings of this Committee in Geneva, meanwhile, France, Italy and Czechoslovakia had opposed as "premature" a backhanded suggestion by British Captain Anthony Eden that each Committeeman say whether his Government thought the problem of exportation of arms had yet been raised by events in the Far East. In other...
At this point Producer Gilbert Miller steps out in front of the curtain and pays a somewhat backhanded compliment to his audience. He says that he has asked Herr Molnar to write a more enlightening sequel for the U. S. edition of the play. The sequel shows the characters ten...
Such a one, Prizeman Lewis indicated, is Princeton's Professor Emeritus Dr. Henry van Dyke, member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters who recently criticized the Nobel award to Babbitt's creator as a "backhanded compliment" to America (TIME. Dec. 8). Flaying the 50 academicians as a group, Mr...
Professor Emeritus Henry van Dyke of Princeton, commenting on the award of the Nobel prize in literature to Novelist Sinclair Lewis (Main Street, Babbitt, Arrowsmith, Dodsworth), said: "They handed Lewis a bouquet, but they gave America a very backhanded compliment." Commented Novelist Lewis: "I am particularly honored that the attack...