Word: compliment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Diplomacy has been defined as the "science of double-dealing." A letter written to the "New York Times" by a European correspondent complains that America is totally lacking is competent diplomatists. Although this might seem to imply a compliment to our honesty, it is hardly meant as such. But if the correspondent has commented further he might also have applied his statement to almost every European power...
...plan, resulting from an invitation extended by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, to hold a joint concert of the Orchestra and the Glee Club in New York City on Saturday, March 17. The invitation, establishing a precedent for amateur Glee Clubs, was made public yesterday and is considered an unusual compliment to the work of the University Club...
...Downfall of Science" those facts for which he pleads? I would begin by saying that both Mr. La Farge, and I have enjoyed such a course as "The Downfall" advocates--and we appear to have suffered in rather similar science courses at Harvard. (Let me take this opportunity to compliment him on his C. As I do not intend to take up the manufacture of synthetic fertilizers, I grew rather depressed in my science course and received a complimentary E, when I was allowed to retire...
Even this doubtful compliment cannot be paid to Harvard Hall. The building which originally stood on the site was burned. The one of today assumed its present aspect in 1870. The architects in this case must have left stairways entirely out of their consideration but compromised with the authorities on a single flight just three and a half feet wide...
...played boyish pranks, dodged an education, and generally mistreated the glorious manhood of sideburns. Rumours of such things had previously reached our ears, but somehow we had failed to connect them officially with these portrait ancestors. And now we do not know whether to thank the Dean for his compliment, or to deplore his shattering of our beliefs. Incidentally, to return a Roland for an Oliver, the wisdom of the whole disclosure might be questioned; for, having no longer the respect of the shades to hold us down, to what lengths of frivolity might not the present generation be tempted...