Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...return the compliment, Mr. Longworth called upon Mr. Pou to take the Speaker's chair on the last day while Representative Finis J. Garrett of Tennessee, Democrat floor leader, presented a resolution lauding the Speaker...
...would compliment John D. Rockefeller Jr. on his wealth. Thousands have blundered into complimenting the Phillipses on their charm. The important thing Mr. Phillips about Diplomat Phillips is that, regardless of personality, he is a good diplomat. It is widely conceded that there is no better equipped diplomat in the U. S. service. For 23 years he has been equipping himself. He began as private secretary to Ambassador Choate at the Court of St. James's. He served in Peking. He accepted demotion in order to return to Washington, to work "with the office boys of the State Department...
...Bingham Thursday at Worcester C. C. Little '10, president of the University of Michigan, will be on the program as a speaker at Detroit when Bingham speaks there. C. A. Pratt '27, football captain-elect, will speak at New Bedford. Bingham has accepted the New Bedford engagement as a compliment to Pratt, who comes from New Bedford...
...Captains of Conflict ran serially in Publisher Archibald W. Shaw's System ("The Magazine of Business"). By coincidence, Hero Rowntree is caused to compliment that magazine in the text...
Princeton has the thing called college spirit to a degree that is almost unmatched. This is not necessarily a compliment. College spirit needs for its strongest expression an attitude in the individual that is a little less than sophisticated; a little less than mature. He must be prepared to swallow unquestionably much that a properly developed sense of humor would reject and to adbicate emotionally and intellectually at the call of the pack. As men grow to intellectual maturity they frankly hesitate to "die for dear old Rutgers," and as colleges grow in size and complexity they attract a larger...