Word: complimented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moslem Brotherhood has paid him an even stronger compliment. Examining a sheaf of notes taken by a Brotherhood member apparently during an indoctrination session, a U.S. newsman found the following passage: "Brotherhood made bad mistake in deciding not to kill Farouk in 1948 . . . he is strongest man in Egypt...
...Lincoln Continental: the luxury car which Edsel Ford helped design in 1939, and which the company abandoned in 1948 because the model was not making money. The catalogue liked its smooth tight lines, wound up with the ultimate compliment: "The Lincoln Continental satisfies the requirements of connoisseurs...
...help himself up the long climb Dizzy married a society widow for her money. "An excellent creature," he said of her, "but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans." He came to love her so devotedly that he once paid her a supreme compliment: "Why, my dear, you are more like a mistress than a wife." She said of him: "Dizzy has the most wonderful moral courage, but no physical courage. When he has his shower bath, I always have to pull the string...
...choir boy and the frame of a prize bull let the vibrations pour over him until he could stand it no longer. His bright black eyes glistened. "Oo, Mario," he cooed lovingly, "you can sing like a sonofabitch ! " Both the voice on the record and the ecstatic compliment came from Mario Lanza himself, at 30 the first operatic tenor in history to become a full blown Hollywood star...
...closing I must compliment the Advocate business board for procuring a lush three page Anti-Vivisection advertisement (which must have done the coffers a lot of good through it rather disfigures the back pages of the magazine). Perhaps the editors will use the profits to hire a professional proof-reader next year...