Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subscriber to and booster for your valued publication, wishes to compliment you on the thoroughness with which you are covering Mr. Hoover's trip. The maps visualizing the route, and the brief interesting information regarding the countries visited is very refreshing to the average man, who is not so well informed about South American countries...
...whose public silences have really been even more impressive than Calvin Coolidge's, surprised everyone by standing up and making a speech. Mr. Hoover had prepared a speech and given it to Ambassador Fletcher to read for him. When President Irigoyen sat down, President-Elect Hoover returned the compliment by recovering his own manuscript and reading it himself. An interpreter was necessary to render from English to Spanish. Mrs. Hoover speaks Spanish with moderate fluency but Mr. Hoover has never progressed beyond the meal-ordering stage...
...ovation. A sturdy, middle-aged Italian, Respighi had come to the U. S. especially for the premiere. Only in Heaven, he announced after the general rehearsal, could one hope for so perfect a production as the Metropolitan's. The Metropolitan's audience tried to return the compliment, called him again and again before the curtain. For critics The Sunken Bell was commendable, if unimportant, an opera to make one pleasant evening, if scarcely half a dozen...
...Donovan grinned when newsgatherers begged him to admit that he would be the Hoover Attorney-General. Said he: "I appreciate the compliment you fellows are paying me. . . . But I do want to make it plain that Mr. Hoover has not asked me. . . . That is a fact...
...Another compliment to the man whose victory was causing people to say, "A Catholic can't be elected President of the U. S.," was published on the front page of the Osservatore Romano, quasi-official Vatican daily-a letter from the late Pope Benedict XV, dated 1920, congratulating Herbert Hoover on U. S. relief efforts in Europe...