Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contrary," continued the King, "the Amazulu people would consider it their highest compliment. If you'd go down to South Africa to visit them they'd probably make you a priestess, and someday perhaps worship your spirit...
...roar was unnecessary. The new system is not a slight upon any of these schools. Perhaps it is a compliment. The story is this: Educators with a new idea started a new system of education. In the 30 schools on the selected list the pupils are not given the routine and stiff training necessary to the taking of college board examinations. These pupils are educated broadly in the history of man and his achievements, his arts and skills. And considerable emphasis is laid upon current events. The purpose is to turn out an intellectually well-rounded pupil with just enough...
...wanted somebody to come running. His granddaughter, Jocelle, became his favorite, but she had to knuckle under like the rest. When the old man discovered that she had been seduced by his nephew, the night before he went to be killed in France, he paid her the unwanted compliment of repeating his vow in her favor. But when she had the spirit to receive a suitor who had been in jail for his pacifist opinions. Stoner refused to give him houseroom for more than an hour. But Jocelle went ahead and married him anyhow. Finally...
...Paid to visiting Chancellor of Austria Kurt Schuschnigg, a devout monarchist who returned last week to Vienna, the delicate compliment of placing on the order paper for future debate two bills postulating "the right of small nations to re-establish monarchies, if they so desire." The first bill referred to Austria, the second to Hungary...
...other reason than the fact that for a decade it has not once aroused the wrath of congressmen it serves, Potomac Electric Power Co. deserves the handsome compliment lately paid it by the New York State Power Authority. That body called it "an outstanding case of successful private operation of a public utility." Before it subscribed to the Washington Plan in 1924, Potomac Electric was a constant thorn in the side of Congressional utility baiters, who very nearly succeeded in passing a bill to dam the Potomac River above Washington and sell public power to public servants. They even gained...