Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although it is unfortunate that the younger generation of authors cannot write enough worthwhile plays to satisfy the demand, it is a compliment to the theatregoing populace that it refuses to accept drivel and receives instead the thought-stimulating and inspiring lines of Ibsen. In this case, turning to the past is a sure sign of progress...
...mistaken in judging the sentimental appeal the old Waldorf still has for many undergraduates. Its fame is spread widely, already the no' Grious film. "Brown of Harvard" has given it the doubtful compliment of naming it as a Harvard rendezvous and there are others. It is often found that in later years graduates in recalling their college days will remember most pleasantly some eating place where they foregathered according to tradition. The selected beer gardens of the various student's corrs of the German universities, the famous Pekawook Cafe at Columbia, these are examples of places long remembered and almost...
Prince Chichibu, though he turned the compliment deftly, may well have felt a smouldering pride at the thought that no personage of the blood imperial is known to have equaled his achievement in scaling nine of the principal mountains of Europe.* (TIME...
...Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor, in search of a proper weekly compliment to his hero, President Coolidge, fitted last week into the mozaic of his daily column an epigram: "This is the land of gold and the administration of golden silence...
...Amundsen had planned their Arctic continent-hunt two years ago, tried by airplane, failed, and looked about for an airship, which they found in Italy and bought, hiring her designer as captain and later including the captain-Nobile-in the title of the expedition "as a compliment to Mussolini and the Italians." Friction had begun before the ship left Rome. There was a scene when Riiser-Larsen, a big, strong, silent man, was reduced to tears by Nobile's vociferous demand for recognition and authority. "That man Nobile," Riiser-Larsen had moaned, "has more gall and conceit than...