Word: complimenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this session Ingalls, playing a whirlwind game for the Boston team, nearly slipped one over on Holmes, while Baker returned the compliment by ramming home a rebound of a shot by Bigelow past Lacroix...
...west. Harvard's trip a year ago to California, for battle with the pride of the Pacific coast, furnished further substantiating evidence of Harvard's sporting blood. Better than that Harvard has invited Illinois to a game at Cambridge but Illinois insists that Harvard return such a compliment by matching the Illini at Urbana. Illinois has the same pride that characterizes Harvard...
...time of our team's visit to Annapolis, Navy men had occasion to compliment the University for the sportsmanlike conduct of its representatives. By the action of certain spectators at the recent game against Princeton our good reputation has been much injured; and more than one of our visitors has expressed his open criticism, which is only too well founded...
...states "A few years ago the Boston Symphony Orchestra was generally conceded to be the best in the country. Now, no one would make such a claim for it." Let me quote Mr. Philip Hale (Boston Herald; October 11, 1919) "Nor was the hearty applause merely by way of compliment, it was spontaneous, a willing tribute to the indisputable talent of the leader and to the equally indisputable proficiency of the superb, unrivalled orchestra.." Also Mr. Richard Aldrich (New York Times, February 6, 1920) "Mr. Monteux's admirable musicianship and technical mastery were shown in his reading and performance...
...best compliment I can pay to the Cercle Francaise is this: I saw "Primerose" several times, in Paris at the Comedie Francaise, and my recollection of those evenings never prevented me in the least from thoroughly enjoying the excellent acting, the fine sense of detail, the keen comprehension, of all the "esprit" and intentions displayed at the Copley Theatre. It is a great success for the cast, for the Cercle Francaise-for all those who have co-operated in the preparation, staging or performing of this charming play...