Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although to American soldiers' eyes the nervous, myopic little man with his bows and headshakings is still something of a comic figure, his Japanese subjects now call him ochitsuite (poised-and-at-his-ease)-a high personal compliment. Hirohito's /ords are few, but well chosen and sometimes surprising. To union bosses at Nagasaki's big Mitsubishi heavy-industry plant, he said warningly, "Thank you for your cooperation. I hope you will work for a healthy labor union." To coal miners, he appealed, "I should like to ask you to produce much more." To the children...
...wartime Germany few names were more esteemed than that of Willy Messerschmitt, Germany's brightest plane designer. When Hermann Goring used to bellow for more fighters, fighters, fighters, it was "Professor" Messerschmitt who turned them out. Allied pilots paid Willy the highest compliment: when one of them began to jerk his head around nervously they called it "the Messerschmitt twitch...
This time, the juniors gave a supper for Eva Mae, and the whole town turned out for graduation exercises last week. Eva Mae got a diploma, a certificate for three years of perfect attendance, and a compliment from Principal A. M. Gardner, who said that her marks were "above medium." Somebody asked her how she had liked school. Said Eva Mae: "Well, it was awfully strange...
...admitted cautiously, "but the city don't appeal to me." "As picture material?" somebody asked. "As any material," she replied, firmly. Then she took the train down to Washington, where she got the Women's National Press Club annual award for art, and the even more impressive compliment of unwavering attention from President...
...years later, Dickens married Kate Hogarth, whom he completely dominated. Kate bore him ten children and he adored them all, but he gave her small thanks. "My wife," he wrote resentfully to a friend, "is quite well again, after favoring me (I think I could have dispensed with the compliment) with No. 10 . . . I have some idea ... of interceding with the Bishop of London to have a little service in St. Paul's beseeching that I may be considered to have done enough towards my country's population...