Word: complimented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Trib, delighted with Harsch's backhanded compliment, nevertheless could not resist an improved version for its readers. Said a Trib editorial last week: "From what Mr. Harsch has written, it is clear that, dangerous and costly as the Acheson policies have been, they would have been a great deal more dangerous and a great deal more costly except for the Administration's fear of The Tribune . . . We have [Harsch's] well-informed word for it that The Tribune is the only newspaper in the United States with the strength, the vigor, and the purpose always to serve...
...fifth in organized baseball), "Jumbo" Shantz was still beating everyone. He was the first pitcher in either league to win eleven games (one loss). Off and running at a faster clip than Grove's fabulous 1931 pace, blond, blue-eyed Bobby Shantz, 26, is getting the ultimate compliment from buzzing Philadelphia fans: "As good as Grove." On the early season record, he is better: in six of his victories he allowed only one run or less; his earned-run average is an impressive...
...both Houses of Congress-including such Senators as George, Carlson, Thye-and by such other conservatives as Justice Owen J. Roberts, Will Clayton, Joseph Grew, John McCloy, John Foster Dulles, James Wadsworth, Paul Litchfield, Harry Bullis (to name but a few), I take it that "visionary" is a compliment in your lexicon, and I thank you. But I must testify that Senator Kefauver has supported it not only "in theory," but in season and out-and so vigorously as to take Secretary Acheson sharply to task for holding up this resolution...
...staged and cast it. At first, he had trouble signing up Charles Boyer, who was afraid his French accent might make a hash of the long set speeches. "All right, Charles," said Laughton, "please recast the show for me and find someone else to do Don Juan." The delicate compliment did the trick. Says Laughton: "The public forgets that Boyer was a great actor before he ever became a romantic lead in movies...
...life is only as good as the last herring catch; still another, a thriving granite center 25 years ago, is now an apathetic ghost town. Mrs. Henrichsen's chief satisfaction is that a clannish, clammish people have opened their hearts to her. She prizes most one oblique Maine compliment: "I don't care for you," said a woman on whom she was calling-and Preacher Henrichsen's heart sank. "No," the woman said, "I don't care for you no more than's if you was my sister...