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...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...
Although to American soldiers' eyes the nervous, myopic little man with his bows and headshakings is still something of a comic figure, his Japanese subjects now call him ochitsuite (poised-and-at-his-ease)-a high personal compliment. Hirohito's /ords are few, but well chosen and sometimes surprising. To union bosses at Nagasaki's big Mitsubishi heavy-industry plant, he said warningly, "Thank you for your cooperation. I hope you will work for a healthy labor union." To coal miners, he appealed, "I should like to ask you to produce much more." To the children...
...wartime Germany few names were more esteemed than that of Willy Messerschmitt, Germany's brightest plane designer. When Hermann Goring used to bellow for more fighters, fighters, fighters, it was "Professor" Messerschmitt who turned them out. Allied pilots paid Willy the highest compliment: when one of them began to jerk his head around nervously they called it "the Messerschmitt twitch...
This time, the juniors gave a supper for Eva Mae, and the whole town turned out for graduation exercises last week. Eva Mae got a diploma, a certificate for three years of perfect attendance, and a compliment from Principal A. M. Gardner, who said that her marks were "above medium." Somebody asked her how she had liked school. Said Eva Mae: "Well, it was awfully strange...