Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Students are not above reproach as far as hissing is concerned, however. "For instance," says Sumner, "undergraduates hiss newsreel shots of Roosevelt, the townies return the compliment when Hoover's visage flashes on the screen." From this reaction he deduces that the student body is fundamentally Republican...
Italians charged that Ethiopians were firing dumdum bullets from rifles and machine guns made in England, Belgium and the U. S. last week. The compliment was returned by U. S. Presbyterian Missionary Doctor Robert W. Hockman of Jijiga. Said he: "Even the use of dumdum bullets-and I am certain they are being used-does not affect the Ethiopian warriors, who by tradition are accustomed to all sorts of the most unspeakable barbarity. This country cannot be overcome by mechanized armies. It is remarkable to see thousands of warriors spring from the grass and come from behind rocky hills when...
Cinema producers who read the Catholic weekly America might have been pleased to find therein last week the first thoroughgoing compliment which the Church of Rome has paid the industry since the Legion of Decency campaign began last year. Wrote Jesuit Gerard B. Donnelly: "I hold no brief for Hollywood but somebody ought to insist that the producers have lived up to their promises with admirable fidelity. . . . They have shown a splendid spirit of co-operation with the official leaders of the Legion of Decency...
...Shapley was president of the Commission on Nebulae and Star Clusters, celestial departments of which he is a consummate master. He reported and commended surveys of galaxies of stars beyond the Milky Way ("island universes") undertaken at a half-dozen observatories, singled out for especial compliment Edwin Powell Hubble's collection of nebulae down past the 19th magnitude of brightness, revealed that Harvard's total of discovered but unpublished nebulae in the Northern and Southern hemispheres was 140,000, most of them fainter than the 16th magnitude.* Hot Ants & Hot Stars. Harlow Shapley was born 49 years...
...lose sight of his king in his search for a code of ethics in modern warfare. But in a brilliant chapter on the King and his reign, Biographer d'Ydewalle characterizes the daily routine of royalty in terms that are enlightening. Plagued by intriguing politicians, the highest compliment Albert could pay his minister was his sardonic "You, at any rate, have always told me the truth." One of his most trusted advisers was Vandervelde, onetime president of the Second International, and of him the king remarked, "He is more than an adversary, he is a rival." He brooded over...