Word: courteousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wine from an old peasant woman at the station at Caen; and several other things of like nature that I do not put down for publication because they came to me by report rather than as first-hand verity. In general, I believe the members of the Team were courteous and considerate and well-behaved; but so, in general, were the French audiences that watched the Games. At any rate, remembering always our immense numbers, and that irritating business of anthem and flag, it does not seem to me we were treated sufficiently badly to enable us to cast...
...name of the U. S. Government, M. Firmin Gémier, who has for many years been the director of Le Theatre National de I'Odéon of Paris, arrived in the U. S. to produce some of his famous plays. The invitation was not merely a courteous act toward M. Gémier, but a gracious recognition of France...
...read between its courteous lines your feeling that I have recanted my former progressive notions, am a turncoat and a renegade...
...addition to this generous act of the Imperial family, three Jap- anese associations, organized after the earthquake, engaged to contrib- ute $50,000 in cash and materials for the construction of the school and a foreign community centre. A committee of Americans and British accepted the courteous offer...
Friendly, courteous, firm, the note is brief and its principal contents, it was authoritatively stated, express dissatisfaction with Secretary Hughes' reply, and affirm Japan's intention of keeping the Immigration Act of 1924 an open question...