Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...27th hole. For years she played most of her golf against her famed Brother Roger, who tied for the British Open in 1921, won the British Amateur in 1923. She frequently beat him. In 1930, Bobby Jones called her "the finest golfer I have ever seen," a compliment noteworthy for banality, since every expert who has seen her play agrees that for style perfection no golfer in the world, male or female, has ever been her equal...
...years to honor its ancient friend China with an embassy, but refrained. In 1924 when the U. S. S. R. paid China the compliment of an embassy, in 1934 when Italy followed suit, the U. S. still refrained. But when Japan, discovering that China might be captured in the arms of . friendship more cheaply than by the arms of war. gave China an embassy, the U. S. and Britain hastily jumped upon the bandwagon, arranged a simultaneous announcement. The U. S. might as well have tagged along with Germany who acted a day later. To the Chinese...
...with which, when they came to the question of Japan, the Methodists followed the lead of their presiding officer, Bishop Titus Lowe of Oregon. The report expressed friendship toward Japan. Chided Bishop Lowe: ''When you condemn American imperialism in the Far East and in the next breath compliment Japan after her recent record in Shanghai and Manchukuo, I fear your social service brains are not working. One of the rankest bits of imperialism in the world is Japan...
...have the numbers, of Poets Wyant Hugh Auden and Stephen Spender (TIME, Oct. 1). The first books of both Auden and Spender were dedicated to one Christopher Isherwood. Last week Author Isherwood appeared for the first time on the U. S. scene, partly returned his compatriots' compliment by dedicating The Last of Mr. Norris to W. H. Auden. To canny readers, this salute was as unmistakable a signal as a finger laid to the nose: Author Isherwood is a lad of the new day, and oldsters had best avoid him altogether or loosen their collars before they begin...
Blustered Senator Long: "Tell that fellow to go slap damn to hell. If he had any sense, which of course he hasn't, or he wouldn't be in the Cabinet, he would praise this legislation. We are doing the United States Government a compliment when we let them do business with...