Word: commendation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Finances in those days were a problem. Once Lawrence Barrett played six tragedies in a week and made $3.46. Edwin Booth in his best days was glad to make $1000 in one week, and that covered expenses of his whole company. I commend the theatre to you in both its past and its present for instruction as well as amusement...
...imperialism and no toe, no matter to whom it belonged, escaped his heel if its owner got in the way of his policy. Few men were a match for him in withering invective; none surpassed him. He was a statesman of the old Victorian school, which had much to commend it but which is now something of an anachronism...
Thus, with one prize, does a great scientific society commend the progress of science toward the infinitely great, towards the infinitely small...
...many of the charges which Mr. Blanchard makes will appear eminently justified. In so far as his efforts are motivated by a genuine desire to keep the ideals of the University above those of a, commercialized America they will react with approval only. But the student body can not commend his procedure. He is fighting an evil--vague, intangible, conjectural--with a far greater evil--concrete, threatening, and ever sinister...
...President Coolidge wrote to commend William Ritter, founder of a large lumber business in Columbus, who gave some $2,000,000 of stock in his company to 124 employes as a Christmas gift. Wrote Mr. Coolidge: "Such acts of generosity cannot help but lead to better cooperation and understanding between the employers and employes, and you are to be commended for the fine example you have shown...