Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country what they will wear when Spring comes along. Green is to be the dominant shade for 1931 according to the dopesters who apparently feel they no longer need disguise their bait. Or, if one refuses to look for mercenary motives, the new fashion may be considered a gracious compliment to the sons, of Dartmouth who last Spring told the world about their shorts...
...other well-meaning compliment would so surely annoy Artist Luks. A beefy, lusty fellow, in excellent health, he realizes as well as any of his critics that he is now doing the best work of his career, takes great delight in defending the accomplishments of middle age over the showy triumphs of youth...
Such a one, Prizeman Lewis indicated, is Princeton's Professor Emeritus Dr. Henry van Dyke, member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters who recently criticized the Nobel award to Babbitt's creator as a "backhanded compliment" to America (TIME. Dec. 8). Flaying the 50 academicians as a group, Mr. Lewis nevertheless made ten exceptions, evinced a weakness for: Nicholas Murray Butler (president of the Academy), Wilbur Lucius Cross, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost, James Trus-low Adams, Hamlin Garland, Owen Wister, Brand Whitlock, Edith Wharton, Booth Tarkington. But the Academy, he declared, "does not represent literary America today...
Professor Emeritus Henry van Dyke of Princeton, commenting on the award of the Nobel prize in literature to Novelist Sinclair Lewis (Main Street, Babbitt, Arrowsmith, Dodsworth), said: "They handed Lewis a bouquet, but they gave America a very backhanded compliment." Commented Novelist Lewis: "I am particularly honored that the attack came from where it did." Then he sailed for Sweden to receive his $46,350. Said he: "Naturally I felt that some day I would get this recognition, but I did not know when. I should be just as glad if Eugene O'Neill had received...
...want to pay the compliment of frankness to this assembly . . . if we agree here upon some form of constitution and you Indian delegates go back to work it, there is a strong organized party [Gandhi's] in that country who will wrest it from you and use its newly granted powers for furthering their own separatist and independent ends...