Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Corporation, recently wrote, "Harvard is still 'princeps,' but no longer 'facile princeps"; and the story is current that at one of America's great universities it is considered the height of academic distinction to receive an invitation from Harvard--and to decline it. Without complacence Harvard can accept the compliment implied in this witticism. "We cannot ignore the fact," said President Conant in his annual report, "that it is increasingly difficult to attract from other universities and research institutes the out standing men whom we desire." Harvard must, as the President suggested, make academic life more attractive in Cambridge...
...excellent comedy production, and this time he is not hampered by the exactions of an historical role. Cabot Barr--for some reason not entirely clear, the last gentleman--is a crotchety old New Englander, who delights in insulting the lesser members of his family. And it is a compliment to his ability that he can insult them, for they are a pretty scaly lot. His sister Augusta (Edna May Oliver) is a scrawny, self-starting weeper; his only son (Donald Meek) is a fawning, scheming hypocrite, who spends his time making a record of his father's eccentricities with...
Nova is a compliment to her maternal grandmother, who came from Nova Scotia. By far the most famed child actress in England, Nova Pilbeam is by no means a British Shirley Temple. Now 14, small for her age, she made her stage debut at 5, in an amateur children's fantasy, started to act professionally...
...week Foreign Minister Mussolini ordered the Italian Legation in Nanking raised to the rank of an Embassy, "to make it correspond with the importance of China as a great power and with the importance of the political, economic and cultural relations between Italy and China." Only other Power to compliment Great Power China with an Embassy is Soviet Russia...
...full force and you try one fellow after another until you get the best buy. It all averages about 25 miles for $.75...All the members of the Keio University nine knew the words to the Maine "Stein Song" (poor things) and so the Harvard team returned the compliment by learning their school song and using it as a war-cry on the trip home...That trip back was uneventful and Captain-elect Dick Maguire was the only one who found the tossing of the ship disturbing...Craig Woodruff furnished the humor on the journey, and caused Frank Owen...