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...closing I must compliment the Advocate business board for procuring a lush three page Anti-Vivisection advertisement (which must have done the coffers a lot of good through it rather disfigures the back pages of the magazine). Perhaps the editors will use the profits to hire a professional proof-reader next year...
...pages, which Lampy saw fit to squeeze in among the ads, he has rung in a group of his old editors to entertain, to instruct, and to compliment. In one of these are they notably successful, though they do try hard. Their humor for the most part does not evoke a spontaneous "heh-heh" or even a "haw-haw-haw"; it is of the "well, when you come to think of it this is pretty smooth doggerel" variety...
...election in 1887, Clemenceau summed up this view of the presidency by growling at his colleagues, "Vote for the stupidest." His fellow deputies paid him a backhanded compliment 33 years later, when they decisively voted him down for the same office...
...Pattern. Many of Big Crime's big men have paid Kefauver the compliment of disappearing. Jake Guzik vanished from the steam room next door to Chicago's Crime Commission, where he conducts his business over an ivory-handled telephone with a towel around his sagging middle. Charlie Fischetti could be found neither at his Miami estate, nor in Manhattan's Stork Club, nor in the duplex penthouse atop 3100 North Sheridan...
...wish to compliment you on the thoroughness and foresight with which you have dealt with this all-important matter...