Word: complimenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wise men of their time. A realist, he does not despair of the Golden Age in a time of crass opulence, but sees this country as an adolescent that has really done extraordinarily well to produce a Dewey so soon. The country might well take unto itself another compliment for having produced a Will Durant. The Significance of his book is its extraordinary humanization of lives and literature which, for most people, lie moldering in the rat-runs of deserted lecture halls. Its 575 pages are more simple, vivid and downright readable than the average run of best-seller fiction...
Hilaire Germain Edgard Degas, long years ago, standing in front of one of Mary Cassatt's paintings, turned with his slow, twisting smile to a companion. The remark was perhaps the highest compliment she everreceived-more satisfactory even than the one the Luxembourg paid her when it bought one of her paintings on behalf of the citizens of France. Degas, that superlative draughtsman, who alone of all painters has immortalized the beauty of awkwardness, knew what he was talking about. Miss Cassatt could draw. At that time she had not come under Degas' influence but had caught...
...rate the gracious advice of the Prince to his former countrymen ought not to be lost upon the world. If royalty have been degraded to figureheads, they may yet serve as spectacular and useful ornaments. If he continues to pay the melting pot the compliment of understanding, the Prince will likely capture a public usually crudely sportive where crowned heads are concerned...
...American League baseball teams with their nicknames. You stated that the "Tygers" were the Detroit, American League team. The word "Tygers" should be spelled with an "i" instead of a "y." The Augusta, South Atlantic League team is known as the "Tygers," the main reason for this being in compliment to Mr. Ty Cobb of the Detroit team. Mr. Cobb got his early start in Augusta, and still maintains his residence here...
...writing, like that of the editing, is noticeably high. This impression becomes stronger on reading the "Report of the Student Council of Education," which fills more than one-third of the issue. It would be most improper for a visitor to discuss this document; but he may, without vain compliment, be struck with the lucidity, orderliness, and independence of the style (which is also very sober in tone); and may admire, very honestly, the maturity of form attained in the committee of ten gentlemen wearing the suffix "26." Such a document, in any University, could surely only do good...