Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...husband, was a sympathetic, adored but firm mother. "I love you, my children," she declared, "but I do not love your faults." Her children were passionate rivals for her affection and approval. Discouraging emotionalism, she told them she would rather hold a brick than a hand. Her maternal compliment on personal appearance was high praise: "Thee will pass in a crowd...
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...have just read the finest compliment to the Press I have seen in many a year. I found it in TIME, March 4, where Earl Long is reported to have said, two days after his recent defeat: "I don't owe the newspapers a ------- thing...
...came alongside. While seamen removed from the Rex's hold 334 bags of U. S. mail addressed to Germany and Poland, Sumner Welles, U. S. Under Secretary of State, left his post at the rail, joined the British officers at tea on the veranda deck. Presumably as a compliment to him, the Rex was cleared in the record time of three hours and 40 minutes. Then the British officers politely said good-by to polite Mr. Welles, and went off with the U. S. property they had come to seize...
...washboard, Jack is considered by most musicians to be one of the greatest and most sincere musicians around. In fact, this reviewer, amongst others, feels that Jack is virtually to the white musicians what Louis Armstrong is to the colored. And the real compliment to his playing genius is that everybody that has ever worked with him perks up his ears when Jack plays--which for pro musicians is something...