Word: courteousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been warned that Londoners would receive him coldly, but he found people exceedingly courteous...
Lord Birkenhead, ex-Lord High Chancellor, advocated diplomatic action of a tactful and courteous nature, of which, he remarked slyly, " the Foreign Secretary was capable...
...dear friend, were always so nice and courteous...
...Charles E. Heitman of the Christian Science Committee on Publication wrote a courteous letter to the editors of TIME, referring to quotations from London papers published in these columns by way of contrast with The Monitor's story...
...admitted to polite company. Even men of the same tongue are apt to get into difficulties, as Americans in England have discovered with such words as "bloody" and others that appear equally innocent. Lore Robert Cecil, when he was being entertained in a Boston club, meant only courteous approval when he remarked "What a homely room you have here!"--and he found it difficult to understand the coolness of his hosts during the rest of the evening...