Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point of exuberance, sometimes to the point of bedlam. If male they would be shouting at football games; as it is, they can discuss a hockey game vivaciously throughout a dinner. When ased what adjective they would use if they wanted to give another girl the highest compliment possible, they unanimously answer "charming" or "feminine...
Thank you for the compliment [March i], but although my Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Book of Etiquette seems to be in most American embassies and consulates and in foreign embassies as well, I cannot by any stretch of the imagination be called an official consultant on etiquette to our State Department. It helps...
...Maria Rilke. At the time, she was a fullblown 36. Rilke only 22. but the pair exchanged murky, passionate letters. Wrote Lou: "I was your wife for years because you were the first reality, body and man indistinguishably one, the incontestable fact of life.'' Rilke returned the compliment: "The transforming experience which then seized me at a hundred places at once emanated from the great reality of your being.'' But Lou inevitably tired of Rilke's explosive temperament. She finally noted in her diary: "Rainer must...
...works, faced the prospect of appearing as a witness before a U.S. congressional committee (he was never summoned), all Frazier could talk about was Ricciardi's curly hair. "My own view," wrote Frazier, "is that if U.S. Representative John Blatnik has any feeling for beauty, he will first compliment Mr. Ricciardi on his barber. Then, if he has any investigative zeal, he will inquire how many strokes with the brush Mr. Ricciardi gives those dazzling locks each night." Enraged. Ricciardi consulted his lawyer, who advised: "All he's said is that you have a nice head of hair...
...guillotine: "She seemed content to walk toward the moment which should deliver her from her innumerable sufferings." George Washington's obituary supplies the clinical details-"died in his 67th year from inflammation of the throat after 23 hours of illness"-together with a curious compliment: "As long as he was President of the United States, he never gave any of his relatives important offices...