Word: courteousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Japanese Foreign Minister of the soundness of his own views. What they said was naturally privy to themselves; but Mr. MacMurray is widely believed to favor much sterner measures toward China than are approved by President Coolidge; and consequently Baron Shidehara almost certainly was obliged to assume his most courteous, most waxlike smile...
...meeting between M. I. T. and Harvard was regarded with some apprehension as an answer to the first objection. A friendly, courteous spirit and treatment of the contestants was the gratifying result, and satisfactory evidence that the art of fisticuffs is of interest for its own sake...
...trust this letter does not intrude unduly. The courteous welcome you give to correspondents invites these proofs of the attentive reading which TIME deserves and receives...
Fifty Manhattan Roman Catholics climbed about a United Fruit steamer in New York Harbor last week and kissed an amethyst ring. It was on the thick powerful finger* of a medium-sized cask of a man, whom two Mexican "very, very courteous" police sergeants a month ago had escorted out of Mexico, over the Guatemala border?Pasquale Diaz, Bishop of Tabasco, now exile. Newspapermen marveled at how, in the serenity of Catholic priesthood, this man's face had acquired its strained lines of truculence, combat and domination. He is a Jalisco Indian, born 1876 in Guadaljara, Mexico; trained by Jesuits...
...courteous Prefect, M. Cameau, did not welcome Mr. Lloyd George under the mistaken impression that his power is on the rebound in England. It is not. But the British coal strike has disrupted the business of thousands of Britons who would formerly have been able to afford a winter vacation on the Riviera. They have not come to Cannes, Nice, "Mo te,"* or Mentone. Therefore the arrival of Mr. Lloyd George was an occasion for demonstrating that tourists are excessively welcome...