Word: courteousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock this morning he is going to visit Economics 2 in Harvard 1, where he will discuss the problems of money and banking in England that were caused by the wandering around Europe of Corsica's most famous citizen. It is only fair for me to make the retort courteous to my most illustrious disciple and vagabond with...
...savoir faire of the "old school" a gentleman and colonel serves cocktails at a dinner party in his honor, Smedley blushes and rushes to the duty of having him reprimanded by the higher powers. All this, by the way, happens in spite of the fact that the courteous and courtly colonel has an excellent record as a soldier. The point is that being a Devil Dog, he lacks the blue wings of the new apostolic succession...
...Union City, N. J., a sleek stranger, having eaten and paid for a large meal in the restaurant of one John Thanos, asked courteously if he might use the telephone. Mr. Thanos heard him give a woman's name. It was evidently a long distance call, but Mr. Thanos, not wishing to appear discourteous, did not listen to the conversation. The stranger talked for 41 minutes. Courteous Thanos polished the glasses out of earshot...
...morning's World. When at last they beheld it, they turned to the editorial page?and there, lo and behold, was a squib entitled "An Apology." Smiles wreathed the faces of the followers of the Tribune. So the World knew when it was wrong, did it? The World was courteous enough to apologize for its offences. With a new respect, they settled themselves to read: "The World made a high bid for the House memoirs; we do not blame the Herald Tribune for its resentment...
TIME thanks Subscriber Goodwin for his courteous suggestion. But is there a genuine demand for this service? The editors doubt...