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His retiring superior felicitated him, hoped he would serve out the five years left before his retirement.

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James A. Farley was castigated for making "a spoilsman's happy hunting ground of the Postal Department," which in turn was felicitated in an adjoining column for "a swell job on its bonus bond deliveries."

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Week prior, to 50,000 enthusiastic Democrats in Little Rock, Ark., Preacher Williams' home, Franklin D. Roosevelt had felicitated himself on the opportunity "to enjoy the kindness and the courtesy of true Arkansas hospitality."

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But the Tokyo Yomiuri last week felicitated the Commonwealth "especially because the Philippines can easily be reached by air from Japan and the prospects of Japanese-Philippine trade are bright."

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I kept talking to him over my shoulder, and cheering him on, and he felicitated me on frogs agreeing so well with my constitution.

From Recollections of Europe by Cooper, James Fenimore