Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Carpenter's discretion would ever go. The music becomes broad and majestic and affirmative, only to drop off at the end in a charmingly deprecatory manner." Said the Journal of Commerce's Claudia Cassidy: "Attractive with no apparent intent to be profound, call it a graceful compliment to the jubilee season...
...sneered at by waiters, cigaret and hat-check girls, or bored by a commercial girl show. He called it Café Society, and turned loose some excellent comic artists (among them Peggy Bacon, William Gropper) to plaster its walls with jibes against cafe socialites-who returned the compliment by staying away. Nevertheless, Cafe Society made money. Its clientele was mostly 1) left-wing intellectuals, 2) jazz addicts. For Proprietor Josephson placed the joint's musical policy in the reverential hands of John Henry Hammond Jr., arch-hierophant of U. S. jazz. High Priest Hammond made Cafe Society...
...compliment either to the virtues of Jane Austin's book or the maturity of Hollywood that "Pride and Prejudice" has maintained its integrity on its perilous journey from paper to film. It appears on the screen as a startling and refreshing example of a picture that clicks without having resorted to the run-of-the-mill movie formulas...
...Harz Mountains, the Grunewald near Berlin, woods in Thuringia, ranged bombers heavy with incendiaries. The crews could not be certain of exact objectives, but peppered certain marked areas with "nice little patches of fire." At least one crew knew it was near an objective, for Germans paid it the compliment of aiming Archies at its plane. Said the pilot: "You wouldn't normally expect a lot of guns to be cracking off at you from the middle of a forest...
...Boston last week the toastmaster of the 99th Annual Unitarian Festival Dinner rose to introduce an honored guest. "There are two things one should see on a trip West," he declared, "the Grand Canyon and Dr. Reinhardt." That was not the only compliment paid to Dr. Aurelia Henry Reinhardt in Boston last week. She was also elected Moderator at the General Conference of U. S. Unitarians, to succeed famed Penologist Sanford Bates. At 63, tall, big-boned, deep-voiced, Dr. Reinhardt thus became the first woman moderator of a large U. S. church...