Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This inspired Jimmy to develop a highly philosophical scene which began with Jackson casually remarking that Jimmy was a blockhead. Jimmy at once protested, "You paid me a compliment when you said my head was made of wood," and launched into a lecture on the virtues of timber. As this reached religious heat, the other members of the team, thoroughly sold on wood, joined Durante in a search for samples. They proceeded to a methodical separation of the nightclub, snatched violins from the orchestra, went backstage and to the kitchen for mixing bowls and stepladders. Gradually they covered the dance...
...Pravda devoted a laudatory seven to his work. The Government decorated him with the Order of Lenin. The city of Perm was renamed Molotov; the town of Nolinsk. Molotovsk; the Red Hydropress plant in Taganrog the Molotov Plant. Alexander Lozovsky, then a trade-union bigwig, paid him a lush compliment: "Comrade Molotov combines Russian revolutionary ability with American efficiency." For helping to boost tank production, the Soviet Government a fortnight ago gave him its highest civilian honor: Hero of Socialist Labor...
...remark should have been interpreted. Supposedly the remark was guileless, but then, we have a suspicion that most of the juniors are not as innocent as they look -- they couldn't be! So we shall have to go on the assumption that the remark was meant to be a compliment...
...British ground, air and naval men have worked, eaten, drunk and fought together as one service, to an extent and in a fashion never dreamed of in World War I. In the heat of combat, U.S. and British field officers go out of their way to criticize themselves, compliment one another on a job well done...
Returning the compliment paid President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 in the Oxford Convocation ceremonies here in June, 1941, Harvard University presented the Right Honorable Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of Great Britain, with the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws this noon. The degree was voted by the Corporation and the Board of Overseers in May, to be conferred at the first opportunity for Mr. Churchill to be in Cambridge...