Word: complimented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when every young American painter dreamed of making the pilgrimage to Paris, where he could shape his style under the influence of the great French masters. Today a growing number of U.S. expatriates are coming home convinced that there is no longer much contemporary European painting worth the compliment of imitation. Most recent example: San Francisco-born Lawrence Calcagno, 39, whose first one-man show in New York was on exhibit last week at the Martha Jackson Gallery...
...closing let me compliment Mr. Pope on having written one of the most charming examples of unconscious humor that it has ever been my pleasure to read. George Axelred
Wrote Author Wouk: "I don't know whether the subjects of your cover stories usually receive the compliment in pleased silence, or what the protocol...
...will bring up for a moment the question of one man and one man's value. Now I just want to point out to you that I greatly appreciated your telegram, particularly where you said, 'We like Ike better than ever.' May I return the compliment and say I like the Republican Party more than ever...
...underlying it all was a chill that cordiality could not conceal: a steely and unsentimental confrontation of men, of countries, of codes that were antipathetic to each other. At one point, Khrushchev, essaying a small compliment, remarked that much liberated German wine had reached Russia since the war, and that he had come to like it. "Come visit me, my friend," said Adenauer slowly, "and I will show you that guest wine is much better than liberated wine...