Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George Santayana has paid the editors of the new Harvard Monthly the compliment of phrasing for them, with his usual grace, the value and purpose of a college magazine, Youth, he says, in the leading article in the first issue, "An Apology for Being Precocious," can bring to experience what experience can not give, and what it too often kills. Youth has the gift of prophecy. It may not know well what is, but it has the right to say what ought to be. It is the time to be radical. "Especially when some storm is brewing in the world...
Your issue of Jan. 11 paid me a compliment, but was not accurate in one respect. . . . t said . . . that I had retired [from the superintendency of the International Reform Federation] and failed to note that I had been elected to be President and that larger powers had been voted to the President than formerly to any President of the Federation...
...course, your statement that I had retired has not made it so, neither does your compliment, that for ten years I have been the Ex-officio No. 1 U. S. Reformer, make...
...Townsend, who had also vapored about "controlling" the next Congress, claimed 102 sympathizers in the new House. But of the successful candidates whom he endorsed, only a fraction returned the compliment in a pre-election poll by United Press in which 240 Congressmen-to-be declared themselves stanchly opposed to the oldster's Plan. With Dr. Townsend thus proved politically harmless, U. S. Attorney Leslie C. Garnett announced in Washington last week that the onetime messiah would be prosecuted forthwith on the contempt citation voted against him last spring when he walked out on a House investigating committee (TIME...
...orator than he began it. But the crowd which his oratory could not sway continued to cheer for they had come like most Alf Landon crowds because they liked the big sign that hung in the Auditorium. Its letters spelled out, "You Can Believe Landon," but it was no compliment to the Republican Nominee. It expressed the crowd's opinion of Franklin Roosevelt. For peace and good will to men, both parties were content to wait until after election...