Word: courteousely
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...have three ways (if one is to judge by fallible experience) of catching the communal eye of an avid but selective public. One is the judicious compound of the Semitic and the Hibernian*; another is the conservative use of the name Shakespeare; the third is the extravagant employment of courteous incontinence...
...Commission will be provided with "suitable offices, necessary data and the courteous assistance of the Bureau of Reclamation." No mention was made of pay. In his letters to the seven prospective commissioners Secretary Work added...
...been destined from the beginning of time to raise up a hundred sons to keep your life extant." "In that case," remarked the patriarch, "your troubles are only just beginning . . ." and the story ends. The stories told by Kai Lung in his golden hours-fantastic, urbane, ironic, witty, courteous, magical- -these stories, naturally, are the substance of the book-jade emblems strung on a cord of Chinese silver, emblems marked with enchanted characters. The Significance. Kai Lung's Golden Hours is not a book to read at a sitting with breathless excite ment-it is a book...
...been warned that Londoners would receive him coldly, but he found people exceedingly courteous...
Lord Birkenhead, ex-Lord High Chancellor, advocated diplomatic action of a tactful and courteous nature, of which, he remarked slyly, " the Foreign Secretary was capable...