Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wisely the emphasis is placed on melody. On the merits of this melody, comment is superfluous. On its delivery, compliment is due. Marguerite Namara, lately with the Opera Comique in Paris, adds beauty and a considerable lyric ability. Lupino Lane is an agile Ko-Ko. William Danforth, standard Mikado of this century in the U. S., is excellent as usual. The acting of Tom Burke in the part of NankiPoo was seriously displeasing, but his excellent concert voice paid back the debt...
When Robert Browning published his famed poem, The Ring and the Book, few could at first reading understand it. Many considered this insulting until one critic pointed out that the poem was, for its very difficulty, the most magnificent compliment that had ever been paid to the intelligence of the British public...
...publishing the "probable answers" to a crossword puzzle contest which was being conducted by the New York Evening Graphic (TIME, Feb. 2). The crossword answers were simple, legible. They required merely to be copied, forwarded to the editors of the Graphic'. they revealed not what sort of compliment, what sort of insult, was relished by the public of the Home News...
...neglect to say for whom they are working. They are willing to sacrifice their sisters in industry to keep their nice jobs." However, since congressional action on the proposed Amendment is quite out of the question during this session of Congress, the hearings may be interpreted chiefly as a compliment to the National Woman's Party...
During his quarter of a century in active Ministerial offices, he ever strained at effective reform of social, labor and industrial conditions. If his great measure, the Factory Bill, was subsequently passed by a Conservative Government (and that in itself was no mean compliment), his Old Age Pensions Act and his fight with the Lords which culminated in the Parliament Act of 1911 remain unique monuments to a life of splendid service to his country, for which he has at last consented to accept a high honor from the people through its cherished embodiment, the King...