Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...following year, on October 7, the Crimson will journey to Morningside Heights to return the compliment. The last time the two teams met was in 1901, when Harvard...
...than ever clear that the time calls for courage and more courage-calls for action and more action." After a dutiful reference to Andrew Jackson, the President repeated the U. S. determination to "help those who block the dictators in their march toward domination of the world," paid high compliment to Republican Wendell Willkie for "rising above partisanship" (his first public mention of the defeated GOPresidential candidate), and denounced the agents and dupes of Naziism who "have represented themselves as pacifists when actually they are serving the most brutal warmongers of all time." Next day the President went ashore, headed...
Willkie climaxed his compliment with an anecdote. "Why," said he, "when I recently called on the King of England even he said in the course of our chat' 'Mr. Willkie, would you mind going into the adjoining room to have our photograph taken...
Clubmembers celebrated the Club's founding by sending their personal cards to the chef inscribed with "special directions and praises" and visting the kitchen to compliment him after they had finished. "Your products are chef d'oeuvres rivalling those of Madame Poulard of Mont Saint Michel which I love so well," Gidding proclaimed in a eulogy to the blushing cook...
Walter Reuther did not take the angry compliment as an offer, stayed with his union. Now he directs its activities in General Motors plants. Last fortnight he bounced into Washington with an idea for sale-free. He wanted to give it away to Defense Commissioner Knudsen, President Roosevelt, anybody else who would use it. His idea: let the U. S. Government take the automobile industry in hand, mobilize its vast capacity for aircraft manufacture...