Word: compliment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actually the turnout was a compliment not only to Poets Cummings and Auden, but to year-old Brandeis (named for the late great Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis) as well. Each week, people had been coming from Harvard and Wellesley, from Boston and other nearby towns, to attend Brandeis' new Institute of Adult Education. For so new a university, ambitious little Brandeis was attracting more than its share of attention...
...whit too thick to frame her large, luxuriantly lashed blue eyes, which darken into violet in the least shadow. Her complexion has been described by an ecstatic publicity man as "a bowl of cream with a rose floating in it." Cameramen have paid her Hollywood's ultimate compliment to beauty: "She doesn't have a bad angle...
Occasionally the police questioned Lucky. Said he: "If somebody slips on a banana peel, the cops call me in to find out if I'm selling bananas." Three months ago a police bigwig admitted that press charges against Luciano were "pure inventions." Lucky returned the compliment. "Italy has one of the best police forces in the world," said he, "and if they had anything on me, they'd arrest...
...time and money fixing her face, it is tough to run slap into a wacky stranger who declares that he has fallen in love with her at first sight because she has the world's muddiest skin and largest pores. Should she decide that any compliment, no matter how disconcerting, is better than no compliment at all? Or should she tell the adoring stranger to mind his own damn business...
Seniors today face several blocks to achieving that inner peace, he added, such as "the massive materialism of our country. . . . George Santayana paid us the compliment of saying that if he looked into the heart of a man and did not find kindness there he would know he was not an American. But our yard-sticks are patterned to measure things rather than ideas...