Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shook down our visitor for $1.50 to get his new trousers fixed. When I asked a Russian friend about this, he said: 'It must have made him feel right at home.' The 'shake' is not unknown in Moscow, as most foreigners find out. I can compliment Mr. Poltoratsky's wisdom in buying a pair of trousers in New York. The Russians turn out millions of pairs a year, but their bottoms all have a tendency to bell out, like the ones Harold Teen used to wear, and still does, for all I know...
...planned long in advance, the House chose Massachusetts' Joseph William Martin Jr. as its 45th Speaker. It was a straight party vote (244 to 182). Retiring Speaker Sam Rayburn paid his successor a compliment: he is "a friend of mankind, a man of unquestioned character, of demonstrated ability, with a great, fine heart." Then Sam Rayburn broke precedent, swallowed his pride and reverted to the minority leadership...
...said, of course, that he wanted to cooperate with Congress and hoped that Congress would return the compliment. But by his lack of specifics and the dull roundness of his words, he had virtually abdicated in Congress' favor...
...resultant plates are forwarded to Cambridge to compliment photographic observations of the Northern Hemisphere. Thousands of these plates, stored up at Boyden station during the war, are now pouring into Cambridge...
...Secretariat smoothly with the aid of eight Assistant Secretaries-General. In charge of Conference & General Services, a catch-all for every conceivable service from interpreting to pencil-sharpening, is Adrianus Pelt, a mild-mannered Dutch veteran of the League of Nations. The other day Lie paid him a chuckled compliment: "There are no interpreters left in the world-Pelt has them...