Word: courteousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consider "poor and tasteless." If this has driven anyone away, on the other hand I know of an individual who left because the food was flavored too strongly. The Cafeteria cannot hope to satisfy all extremes of taste among its members. The staff this year has seemed to me courteous and efficient. While a large-scale eating place of course has an occasional lapse of cleanness at least the Cafeteria maintains a higher standard than the coain lunches of the Square...
...manner he is affable and courteous. He receives many people from all classes and listens to complaints patiently as he puffs cigarette after cigarette. When he commands, he expects to be obeyed and he intimates this by giving his orders with speed, precision, mastery...
Lord Robert has been described as "silent, quiet, destitute of elegance, apparently absentminded, cold, courteous.'" A London newspaper said of him, that, being a Cecil, "he was denied by racial antecedents all capacity to excite himself." Lord Robert is a lawyer, and is as well versed in ecclesiastical as in international law. He is a devoted and sincere Christian, and has probably done as much to get people to go to church as has any living man. In spite of being so well equipped, he has devoted most of his days to politics and, as a result...
...Basing my attitude on the established precedent of past seasons, I had assumed courteous consideration would be shown my desires regarding the opera to be selected, but as the present attitude of the company clearly indicates that you now deem this entirely unnecessary, I am obliged to accept your decision, inasmuch, as I am bound to the company for this season. I deem it fair, however, to inform you at this time that in view of your complete ignoring of even a preliminary discussion of my preference I shall not be with the company next season...
...Courteous...