Word: complimenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: I have, I hope, as much common sense and rational balance as the average man; and I cannot understand why you choose to compliment Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin on the asserted ground that his statements often "have power" because they are as "simple and transparently sincere" as the scriptural text you quote. (TIME, Dec. 26, 1927).* To illustrate my meaning, suppose that a man says with absolute simplicity and sincerity: "Do not smoke tobacco." In that statement there is no power; but there is power in the statement: "Go and sin no more." Yet I defy anyone to prove...
...ninth annual meeting of the American Acceptance Council in Manhattan last week, members studied the blocky, curly-headed man inquisitively. Mr. Young had a reputation for diffidence. When President Coolidge appointed him from comparatively obscure Minnesota to be Board governor, Mr. Young had said: "I consider it a great compliment the President of the United States has paid me. I hope he will never regret the confidence he has placed in me." When asked to what he attributed his rise from bank messenger to Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank in Minneapolis and higher, during 27 years, he had answered...
...letters published in your last issue were the last word in blatant conceit. You begin by being rude and contradictory on the subject of Washington's religion; you go on, print a deserved letter of correction (about ships and whistles) because it contains a whining compliment ; then you tell President George Davis how to manage his Davis automobile business; then, forgetting to apologize for the mistake it chastizes, you proudly display a letter from a member of the U. S. Treasury Department; this is followed by an unsolicited list of the U. S. Senators who subscribe to your magazine...
...SHORT HISTORY OF WOMEN-John Langdon-Davies-Viking ($3). It is no compliment to women that histories which deal with their past behavior must be so labeled; histories of the world's affairs seldom include them to any large extent. Of the many histories which have been devoted to women, perhaps this is the most enlightening. It follows the history, not of different individuals, but of women as a class through savagery to their present civilization. Why they differ from men, what they may hope to accomplish; these are the points discussed. Several points are settled, among them this...
...McLucas of Kansas City declined. The President then appointed 45-year-old Roy A. Young, head of the Minneapolis reserve bank.š As hundreds of telegrams of congratulation poured on to his desk, the new appointee sat down to answer each one personally. "I consider it a great compliment the President of the United States has paid me. I hope he never will regret the confidence he has placed in me." To close friends, he voiced regret at being obliged to leave his Minneapolis home for Washington. He has grown fond of the Minnikahda Golf Club*; where he has often...