Word: complimented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with many women's groups throughout the country. Letters for information are frequent. But a recent one seems to see a need for even more opportunities for suffrage work--it asked the married correspondent just why she uses her husband's name with the opinion this was an unnecessary compliment to the male. The Archives had an answer to this too--"it's more informative...
Mortifying & Humiliating. In the course of two centuries, the city itself has not always returned the compliment of such enthusiasm. It was true that George Washington let his stepson go there, and that Alexander Hamilton was an alumnus. But by 1814 the trustees were branding Columbia as "a spectacle, mortifying to its friends, humiliating to the city." In the 18503, Trustee Samuel Ruggles ruefully pointed out that of two universities that George III chartered, Göttingen had 89 professors and 1,545 students, while Columbia still languished with six professors and 140 students...
...tribute that the justices expect him to meet the frankest and most penetrating questions they can put. After his argument in Alston v. School Board, involving racial discrimination in salaries of public-school teachers in Norfolk, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit paid Marshall a rare compliment of another kind: still in their robes, the three judges stepped down off the bench to congratulate him on his masterly presentation...
...rather stiff and unremarkable score, with few melodic arias and a mediocre book, Conductor Bernstein produced a lively and dramatic show. At the end, white-tied Milanese cheered up half a dozen curtain calls for leading Soprano Maria Callas and Bernstein, leaned into the orchestra pit to compliment the musicians, and filed out into the plush lobby gesticulating to each other like conductors. The" critics chimed in. Bernstein, wrote top Critic Giulio Confalonieri, is "absolutely predestined to music." Milan's eminent Corriere della Sera called him "indisputably brilliant." One of few sour notes came from an elderly admirer...
...former Yale fencing master visited practice recently to bolster any low spirits. But after watching a few minutes he exclaimed to the group, "Excellent, excellent, no worry here," and strode from the room. But perhaps the starry-eyed freshmen drawn to fencing by Hollywood pirate movies paid a greater compliment to Marion when he confided in a fellow swordsman, "He's better than Errol Flynn...