Word: compliment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ultimate Compliment. In the sixth game, the Giant pitchers paid DiMaggio the ultimate compliment. Twice, with runners on base, Joe got an intentional walk so that the Giants could pitch to McDougald. The first time, the strategy worked. But in the sixth inning, after DiMaggio's second pass, Johnny Mize walked and Outfielder Hank Bauer punched out a long triple that put the Yankees ahead, 4-1. In his final turn at bat,† Joe blasted another double, then was out trying to take third on a bunt. It was a sloppy play and nothing to cheer about...
Director Stevens may have used some sort of magic to draw out these three fine performances, but at the same time he has used some down-to-earth technical tricks to compliment the depth of emotion in the acting on the screen. It is to his credit that none of these tricks is ever obtrusive. He uses really close close-ups, and is not afraid to hold the camera on his subject for more than a split-second; he uses light and shadow to reveal or conceal, as he wishes; and he seems to have spent a good deal...
...five years ago a professor who was a friend of mine in a university far from here once said to me, "You know, when a student in my classes has written a brilliant paper on the 'Scarlet Letter' or on 'Tom Jones,' I invite him into my office to compliment him and to make his acquaintance, and we talk for a while...
...five years ago a professor who was a friend of mine in a university far from here once said to me, "You know, when a student in my classes has written a brilliant paper on the 'Scarlet Letter' or on 'Tom Jones,' I invite him into my office to compliment him and to make his acquaintance, and we talk for a while...
After meeting Spain's First Lady, Hearst Columnist Cobina Wright noted her impressions of Señora Carmen Polo de Franco: "In her lack of affectation, she reminded me much of our own Mrs. Truman. I told her as much and she replied that this was a great compliment . . . She told me something of her household routine. 'Every night after dinner, if there is no official function, the Generalissimo and I sit quietly at home . . . My husband does not smoke or drink, except for an occasional glass of wine with dinner. Then, too, every night there...