Word: complimenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Baldwin's remarks were intended as a compliment to Secretary Mellon, and, incidentally, to himself. Said a prominent Kansan : " To the legal profession as a whole, and to a very long line of legal statesmen, some of whom are still living, the Prime Minister's words are, to say the least, a grave and unnecessary injustice...
...Congo, The Booker T. Washington Trilogy, Daniel?that inspires even professional audiences to give vent to as leonine roars of approbation as possible. Here Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, ("The Campaign of Eighteen Ninety-Six as Viewed at the Time by a Sixteen Year Old") with the most magnificent compliment ever paid to a Presidential candidate, " The one American poet who could sing outdoors." Here is The Chinese Nightingale (Mr. Lindsay's own favorite among his longer poems), and The Litany of the Heroes which he describes as a " rhymed Outline of History, still in process of development," and John...
...They grew indignant, and joined the chorus of exterior chorus. " Down with the management!" the howl from the galleries drowned the music. But such was the respect inspired by Toscannini that the disturbers in the theatre amplified their cries. "Down with the management! " they shouted, " Ma evviva Toscannini! " The compliment, however, did not lessen the clamor. The enraged musician tried for a while to keep on with the performance, in spite of the din, but finally had to give it up and order the doors opened. The crowd poured in. The opera began again...
After careful consideration, we should rate the "Amherst Student" as the best American college paper, and we particularly compliment Mr. Warner on his excellent editorials--excellent both in subject and treatment. Amherst has close rivals in the "Yale Daily News", the "Vassar Miscellany," the "Harvard CRIMSON", the "Bryn Mawr College News" the Barnard "Bulletin," and the "Mt. Holyoke News." It seems to us that these papers in the order given come nearest to being well-balanced news sheets, giving due space not only to athletics but to religious, political, social, and educational questions of the day, with good discussions...
...many times have you gone over your shelves on a rainy night, when you were tired and depressed, looking vainly for another story that would pick you out of the mire as quickly as a Conan Doyle, or a Mary Roberts Rinehart or an Anna Katherine Green? What better compliment is there, Mrs. Rohlfs, than that...