Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fiorello LaGuardia, New York City's bustling Mayor, acted as porter for a porterless woman at LaGuardia Field. Said she: "... a high compliment. . . . He is a perfect gentleman...
Stalin broke in: "That was not just a compliment-it was the truth...
...think it would be the finest compliment to all people who have been mistreated by Nazi bestiality that, upon the occasion of the American-British entry into Berlin, the name of Berlin be forever erased from the map and the city renamed Lidice...
...item about Argentina [an official call for eradication of the Dewey influence from Argentina's schools] was new to me. Under the circumstances there, I regard it as a compliment...
...Election Year." Last week the pebbles in Minister Lyttelton's mouth were much in evidence. As the context of his words showed and as his explanation made plain, he was trying to pay the U.S. a strong compliment. Because of the U.S. opposition to aggression, he might have worded his praise, the U.S. made plain to Japan long before Pearl Harbor that she must give up her plans of Asiatic domination or fight. The U.S. was aggressive against the aggressors. But Minister Lyttelton's bumbling word "provoke" gave Axis propagandists a field day. Immediately Jap Domei...