Word: compliment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spring of 1804, Quincy was elected to the state senate and that fall to the national House of Representatives, the year when the Democratic Republicans "received the unexpected compliment of the vote of Massachusetts...
...dark, curly-cropped singer, that was the ultimate compliment. Yet the veteran of the small-time hotel and clubroom circuit has been around too long to toy with complacency. Edging into her late 30s, she wants desperately to move her career uptown to the Broadway stage. "I'd like dramatic singing parts," says she. "I'd like to do a show that has just one great song...
...mink and choked with pearls; star-sapphire pinkie rings glinted whenever their silk-suited owners shot their cuffs. Even "Uncle Miltie'' Berle was impressed. Onstage last week, he bared the bright new caps on his teeth, leered at the enormous room, and delivered a typically backhanded Broadway compliment: "You think this is something? Next year they're going to build an indoor mountain...
Mimicry is a compliment that talent pays to fame. In new novels, two talented fledgling writers pay their respects to F. Scott Fitzgerald, dazzled poet of enchanted youth, and to John P. Marquand, the wry prosist of disenchanted middle...
...Iron Butt. It was at law school, too, that Nixon earned a fellow student's compliment: "You've got an iron butt, and that's the secret of becoming a lawyer.'' The Mazo biography recalls once again that many who have tried to kick Nixon have only succeeded in stubbing their toes on that iron butt. He has been lucky, but he also managed to escape numerous brushes with political disaster thanks to political skill and courage. Mazo reports, for instance, how in 1956 Eisenhower suggested to Nixon that he might want a Cabinet post...