Word: compliments
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...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...
...more than $2,500,000. RFC's $4,000,000 of preferred stock, the twelve Philadelphia banks' $3,000,000 of second preferred, the holdings of the common stockholders (priced at $215 a share in 1929) were left in the cold. To George Washington Brown went the compliment of being asked to serve as liquidator of Integrity's frozen assets...
...years, generally pounding along the single track of "free trade." By 1919 he was calling for world economic conferences to level trade barriers. Tossed out in 1920 by the Harding landslide, his-services to the party had been such that he was made Democratic National Committee Chairman as a compliment...
After his death Lenin was sanctified by Stalin. Joseph Stalin has gone a long way toward deifying himself while alive. No flattery is too transparent, no compliment too broad for him. He became the fountain of all Socialist wisdom, the uncontradictable interpreter of the Marxist gospel...