Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...park. The chickens, of course, were more his wife's affair than his, but they reflected credit on him - an entirely new species of chickens, called the "red and white," which Poland has adopted as its "national breed'' as a way of paying him a compliment. His chateau, four stories high, with a wooden chalet roof, was built by the Count de Maaroes and stands on a site first used by Joseph Fouché, Duke of Otranto, Napoleon's Minister of the Interior. From the terrace on which he was sitting the ground tapered away into...
Complacently the honest men smirked, but they did not relax. They knew that tart, vital words would follow the fulsome compliment. Two days previously Il Duce had given his Cabinet the most dramatic shaking up in the history of his regime. He had kicked himself out of seven* of the eight Cabinet ministries he previously held -retaining only the portfolio of Interior and of course the Prime Ministry. Wildest rumors were current as to what this might portend: 1) That he had negotiated a secret pact of union between Italy and Hungary and was clearing his decks to become Supreme...
...supervise not great in- dustrial enterprises but the Fascist syndicates or "Corporations" which are really employes' unions and employers' associations. Today with strikes ruled out by Fascist bayonets all Italian labor disputes are settled through the Ministry of Corporations, and Ex-Editor Mussolini has paid the highest compliment to Ex-Editor Bottai by giving...
...European concerns were made on that basis. Then said Austin's Bryant: "We can do it within 15 months." Replied the responsible Soviet official, according to despatches, "The contract is yours. You will receive a large bonus if you complete the work in less than 15 months. In compliment to your company we shall probably call the city Austingrad." Austingrad will be the Detroit of Red Russia. Primarily it is intended as the Soviet focus of motor car manufacture, and $20,000,000 of the contract will be spent on car and tractor plants built for the latest type...
...occasion of the opening of the Lady Lever Art Gallery at Port Sunlight, Lord Leverhulme attributed his success to his wife's "gracious influence," adding, however, that it would be a poor compliment to her to say that she was a business woman. "She was a womanly woman and her knowledge of business was nil." During the last few years of his life he rose at 4:30 a. m., spent 20 minutes in exercises, anticipated Calvin Coolidge in the use of an electric horse. For some years, however, he rode each morning a flesh-and-blood horse, always went...