Word: courteousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finally, Professor Murray spoke of his occupancy of the Poetry Chair, paying high tribute to Charles Eliot Norton, few whom the chair is named "Professor Norton had the spark of true inspiration." He declared, "I had the pleasure of meeting him, distinguished and courteous with a taste that was classical to an exquisite degree. He had a love for things that did not follow the fashion. It is most fitting that his memory should be honored in the gift dedicated to the attempt to bring home to others the eternal beauty upon which his own eyes were always fixed...
...found that the thing that bothered me most in China was the terrific heat The officials were all very courteous to me, and seemed to have a good opinion of Americans in general. Commercial trade and the merchant marine are all flourishing despite the war of which I personally saw no evidences China and the Pacific trade at present offer a promising future to the American business...
...motorman opened a valve, admitting water to the mechanism which works the railway. Gently jolting, the car moved perpendicularly up the cliff, atop which is perched the glorious white marble Sacre Coeur. Courteous, the Abbe Loubiere pointed out the "sights." Awed by the splendor of the view, slightly seasick at the sheer drop below them, the three tourists barkened eagerly...
...never begs applause. The people are so real that there will be endless discussion of who is actually who: Sculptor St. George is Sculptor Saint-Gaudens, and so on. If the fabrication of fictitious letters and other personalia are remarkable, the character relations are even more so, especially the courteous, humorous, almost tender friendship between the divorced senior Lords. There is no "diddle-diddle-dumpling" about My Son John. After the prevailing diet of pink-tea fiction, John Lord and his story are strong, black coffee...
...bare fists until one of them fell down. To the man left standing the bartender handed the the wad. Thus were championship prize fights arranged, conducted, once upon a time. And now for many weeks the premonitory rumbles of a new fight have muttered through the land. All very courteous, to be sure. The party of the first part, William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, the party of the second part, James J. Tunney, and around them a whirl of rumors, complaints, offers, conjectures, and lawsuits. Was Dempsey eligible to fight Tunney before he had fought black Harry Wills? The New York...