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Professor Frederick Grant Banting, 38, of the University of Toronto, proceeded from his home in Bedford Road, Toronto, a warmish morning last week, to behold a concrete compliment for his isolating insulin from the pancreas (sweetbread). His University, which had already created a chair of medical research for him, this morning was going to dedicate his splendidly-equipped Banting Medical Institute. In black silk robe gaudy with doctorate trimmings of four universities Professor Banting spent a long day attending ceremonies and meals, hearing speeches, encomiums. Pat was the praise of Berkeley George Andrew Lord Moynihan of Leeds, president...
...with a gesture. The British Embassy has never actually "gone dry." Toward the end of his term Sir Esme Howard, perceiving there was enough to last until he should be gone, merely announced that he would import no more liquors, an announcement which was permitted to appear as a compliment to President Hoover. The new British Ambassador purposes to build up a large and hospitable stock in the cellar of the new embassy now nearing completion on upper Massachusetts Avenue...
Miss Spencer's style is as surely feminine as was Elinor Wylie's in her novels, and, to pay a high compliment, it resembles considerably the fine writing of Sylvia Townsend Warner, eminently finds Lawrence a highly original and perfectly sincere genius without a prototype in literature. Perhaps it is sufficient to say that those who have a knowledge of Lawrence outside of the police court will find her observations among the most sympathetic and appreciative that have been written
...Curtis-Martin Newspapers, Inc. . . . paid the Philadelphia Record a notable compliment...
...possession of that intangible quality "heart". According to the donors these are the qualities which they found were best exemplified in the man whose name the Trophy bears. It is not only a fitting tribute to one who was admired by his friends. It is also a high compliment to the men deemed worthy of it down the years...