Word: compliment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...think your Quiz is a good stunt. I tried it and I am going to compliment myself, for I did much better than 20% ; I missed only one, and the Tiger Flowers question spoofed...
...Boot"?17 feet high, with a sole six feet long, equipped with a barbed spur-wheel two and a half feet in diameter. Six Doebeln shoemakers had taken seven months to construct it from the hides of ten oxen. Touched, the Herr President expressed his appreciation of the compliment thus paid him. It was constructed with still another purpose in view however?to commemorate the 600th anniversary of the founding of the Doebeln Cobblers' Guild...
...have reflected that Napoleon, to whom he is so often compared, placed his sister, the beautiful Pauline Bonaparte, in that Villa. She is there still- reclining in marble on a marble couch, as Venus, whom she much resembled. Her husband, Camillo Filippo Ludovico, Prince Borghese, was paid another great compliment by Napoleon. The Corsican, with characteristic economy, left his beautiful sister at Rome, but caused the most valuable pieces in the Borghese' collection to be conveyed to Paris. They have never been returned. Strolling about the Louvre, one notes that its most precious exhibits are very apt to bear...
...acquainted only with college musical activities from the standpoint of the Glee Club, the Pierian Sodality and the Musical Club, the amount of talent, skill and spontaneous musical feeling, the varied combinations presented at the Instrumental Club concert are truly astonishing and a matter of high compliment to all concerned...
TIME has changed all that. Once a week it brings me the news boiled down and expressed in such a delightful and humorous style as to fee interesting, even fascinating. Perhaps the best compliment I can pay you is to state that in TIME I read news that did not interest me in the least in any other publication...