Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Like the Negro porter who was asked to change $10, I am grateful for the compliment. I am sorry that these funds do not exist, for they would be useful for Children's Relief...
...Government introduced the Quebec Liquor Act, I replied that before very long our liquor legislation would be copied by the other provinces. ... I did not altogether expect that the day might come when even the U. S. ... should through one of its great public men pay us the compliment of a reference to the excellency of our law." The Act provided for the establishment of government-controlled liquor dispensaries...
...thank TIME very sincerely for its courtesy in reviewing the advent of The Rural Digest, and compliment it upon this display of "pulling power...
...King Leopold II of an ivory box containing the first cake of soap made from Congo palm-oil extracted at Leverville. Uncle Leopold, whom no gift could dazzle, afterwards said that the presentation cake "stank cursedly and wouldn't lather," when he sought to use it "out of compliment to M. Lever...
...cannot "keep house" without TIME and wish to compliment you on gathering together more real useful information and real NEWS than we have ever seen "gathered together under one roof" before...