Word: courteousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Suddenly, surprisingly the heartbreaking tension snapped, as Il Capo smiled his peculiarly magnetic and friendly smile. With a few courteous sentences the host reassured his guests. He had called them in, he said, not to deprive them of their livelihood, but to dispel the false impression that the Italian press is not free, and to call upon them for industrious, intelligent support during the Italian electoral campaign of next Spring...
...wonder why my connections with field athletics would bring to my mind the subject of politeness, so I'll explain how this idea came to me. The men of Harvard are the cause of it. They are the most courteous and polite set of men I have ever met on an athletic field. It seems to be traditional with them to be gracious even when in the heat of competition, to accede whenever possible to the wishes of an opponent. I am referring here to their field men, their shotput, discus, hammer and javelin men, who, both in physique...
...little with Manhattan newspapermen last week. Overworked, he was in the U. S. as part of a half-year furlough from affairs.* Energetic he took his relaxation by studying U. S. factories that he had not seen a decade ago. At that time he studied at Columbia University. Courteous, he visited and thanked bankers who this spring sold $70,000,000 bonds of the Tokyo Electric Light Co. (TIME, June 18). Kotaro Wakao's father, Shohachi Wakao, is Tokyo Electric's president. Discerning international bankers see the son, now 32, some future day succeeding the father. Last week...
...Thank you for your courteous inquiry. There is no mystery about my being here as one of Sir Henri Deterding's guests for grouse-shooting, as I have had the pleasure of being his guest on numerous previous shooting parties while in Europe...
...Czechoslovaks by the U.S. immigration quota. But the need of developing a Czechoslovak motor industry is considered vital, and therefore a protective quota operates against even the Allied countries which secured independence for Czechoslovakia after the War. However, the "demand" presented by Minister Einstein, last week, was courteous and purely formal. Negotiations have long been smoothly under way to raise the U.S. motor quota to an annual total of 30% of present Czechoslovak production...