Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Allow me to compliment you on the able...
...miner out on strike, fell in love with her, confessed his literary ambitions and showed her the outline of a novel he was going to write. He had taken a correspondence course in finger printing, but had changed his mind about being a detective. Johnny paid her a heartfelt compliment, called her "a thorn rose, growin' along with the weeds. If it grows by the road, it gits kinda coal-dusty...
...applied; in addition to being an extraordinarily capable actress, she is also what some of the boys would justly describe as a smooth babe. The rest of the cast maintain the high standard set by Miss Peterson; and to say this is to pay them no mean compliment. As always at the Plymouth the sets are excellent. Thora Donelle Marjorie Peterson Warren Pascal Brian Donlevy Catharine Pellett Helen Brooks Homer Pellett Louis Jean Heydt Eva Mordecai Ollie Burgoyne Janice McNish June Martel Hans Patt Carl Johan
...makes subservient to politics: "This whole crushing depression is purely and simply the result of the decline of State power." Marxists will be enraged at Spengler's flat statement that the World Revolution "has reached its goal," is an accomplished fact. They may regard as an undeserved compliment his charge that "the world-economic crisis of this year and a good many next years is not, as the world supposes, the temporary consequence of war, revolution, inflation, and payment of debts. It has been willed. In all essentials it is the product of the deliberate work of the leaders...
Still a housekeeper, wife and mother in spite of authorship, Julia Peterkin has little truck with literary haunts. Poet Carl Sandburg once paid her his supreme compliment when he called her the only writer he knew who was not a literary person. Tall and straight, redhaired, with a calm expression, a poised and kindly manner, Authoress Peterkin writes more now than she did but lives as much as ever on her South Carolina plantation. Other books: Black April, Bright Skin. Rascoe Preferred...