Word: flattering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week O Estado de Sao Paulo credited TIME with truth telling, flayed spot news stories, cabled from Manhattan and Galveston as "grossly exaggerated, largely false and forged in the correspondents' warm imaginations in an effort to flatter Brazilian readers or 'put over' a joke...
From allurements abroad which but flatter the eye The unsatisfied heart turns and says with a sigh...
...Hello Sucker! Pin back your ears and get a load of the next week's news: Sex, murder, sin, off and on will make you grab those straps on the 8:20 subway tighter and tighter. We aim to thrill, flatter, and admire, so cluster around with the money wide, high, and handsome...
...concerned, they are always more of a nuisance than a benefit, especially when they are poor and come in droves on organized tours. When they are rich they think all Italy is theirs without discussion. They put on airs. They think we are 'natives' who must flatter them and serve them, even though they pay with a bad grace. What Fascist cares a damn for tourists...
When St. John Ervine, famed London playwright and drama-critic, came last September to Manhattan to write reviews for the New York World, the World asked certain show-guns to express their opinion of the appointment. Most replied in paeans to the critic, hoping thereby to make him flatter their productions. Not so Producer Philip Goodman. He wrote to the World in part as follows...