Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subject of hate came before the Institute when Hollywood's boy wonder, Writer-Director Arch Oboler (Plays for Americans) slouched up to the speaking table, mumbled a compliment for Corwin, and cut loose with the other barrel. "Anger is what people want, and they want hate, the hate of a determined people who are going to kill. . . . The public says: make us angry. We like...
...does exciting acrobatic dances. But by far the best thing in the show is an animal act called The Bricklayers. The delightful trained dogs who dump loads of bricks, clamber up & down ladders, act tight, sham dead, ride around on scooters and perform on the trapeze deserve the rare compliment that they might have been invented by Walt Disney...
...particularly American form of art who apparently have nothing better to do than to sit in picture shows and bore themselves stiff If the pictures they see are so god-awful that they're disgusted night after night in seeing them, then it isn't much of a compliment to them that they continue to do it. It's probably all for filthy gold, anyway...
...lecture tour Winston Churchill in Cleveland once paid this compliment to that city's oldest and richest newspaper: "I think," said he, "that by all odds the Plain Dealer has the best newspaper name of any in the world." He referred, of course, to the Plain Dealer's name literally, not to its rating among world newspapers...
...greatest compliment the Chungking conference could be given-since it recognized the threat of joint Allied action in southeast Asia-was paid by the Japanese. They started a new offensive in central China, aimed at much-aimed-at Changsha. The Jap, despite the only proven use of gas in World War II, had already failed three times to take Changsha. This time he may not be so anxious to get that provincial capital as to get Chiang's mind off cooperation...