Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cars slid to and fro. From distant conduits they sucked in their human packing, shot the swaying masses to central arteries, discharged them through clattering turnstiles which enumerated the herd and propelled any who sought to delay with a genial postern whack." Even his criticisms are a left-handed compliment: "[The Americans] fall into mass hysterias on small provocation; they continually suppose themselves on the verge either of calamity or salvation; everything is exaggerated to a panacea or a menace, so much so that I could not tell, reading the advertising, which was believed the greater peril to the republic...
Happy, beaming Dr. Breasted, congratulated on all sides as the party and speech-making got under way, beamed more brightly when the Rockefeller Foundation's Dr. Raymond Elaine Fosdick paid him this compliment: "If there had been no Breasted there would have been no Oriental Institute, and without an Oriental Institute the story of the rise of man would today be far less vivid and far less complete...
Next day the U. S. Secret Service paid Leader Benjamin the compliment of taking his "hunger march" seriously and thus helping to publicize it throughout the land. Chief Moran declared that his sleuths had learned the march was really a Communist demonstration on a large scale. "Marchers" from all parts of the country would be brought to Washington in 1,144 trucks, 92 automobiles. They would be lodged and fed along the way. They would have medical attention. They would defend themselves with stones. They would be organized in military fashion. They would petition the President and Congress for relief...
...this point Producer Gilbert Miller steps out in front of the curtain and pays a somewhat backhanded compliment to his audience. He says that he has asked Herr Molnar to write a more enlightening sequel for the U. S. edition of the play. The sequel shows the characters ten years later. Lu has married. Whom? Naturally the last one of the six male characters you would expect...
Harris, a great believer in sex, disbelieved in Shaw's, finally succeeded in worming out of Shaw that he had been celibate till 29, had then paid several women "man's highest compliment'' before he married, in middle age, neither for love nor money-as Shaw himself puts it: "a childless partnership." Harris regretfully admits Shaw was "no ascetic," but adds: "he is absolutely free from the slightest trace of sensuality and is never offensive. In fact that is what I feel is the whole trouble with...