Word: courteousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alabama's famous 39 votes for Underwood. Senator Willis is the only one to raise his voice against an opponent who holds favorite-son tradition in contempt; whatever the other planks in his platform, he is at least a gentleman of the old school, a lone surviving guardian of courteous politics. Even if, bravely fighting, he should go down, Herber Hoover has still to meet the national convention. In Kansas City, then, where in her curved palm woman holds the aesthetic vote...
...Christian Century, caused him to be listed among the 25 most able U. S. preachers. This technique consists of a manner as far removed from oratory as it is from the garbled sensationalism of street corner evangelists. Dr. Jefferson speaks to his large audiences quietly, in the tone of courteous, dignified, lucid and friendly conversation. He does so in the Broadway Tabernacle, Manhattan, a church situated on the boundary of that bright, dangerous region in which ignorant and reckless ladies derive a huge profit from services best left undescribed, in which thieves and theatre managers flourish...
Secretary Davis sent out a second batch of telegrams. A few "big fellows" who wanted to be courteous to the Administration accepted.† But the handful of operators who turned up in Washington were mostly "little fellows" who feel the coal industry's ailment almost as painfully as Labor feels...
...been doused in foamy soapsuds, the same sad mastiff eyes. His nose was shiny and a little bulbous. His speech had a genial and sarcastic tang for the silly staring people who came to see him, his mind retained a vast curiosity and with it inevitably, a courteous and inclusive scepticism, an uncertainty, an almost universal doubt. "He habitually formed so humble an estimate of the value of his works that he was generally surprised at the interest they created...
Just Fancy. Again the fable of a prince who loved madly but, for his country's sake, not morganatically. Perhaps it was not considered courteous to the current genial heir to Britain's throne to make him into a musical comedy. Accordingly the flashback method was dragged out, dusted off, and from a modern prolog the story shifted to a tale of Edward VII adventuring in the U. S. This, of course, meant crinolines; and humor, unfortunately, to match. Pretty tunes and pretty Ivy Sawyer contributed gently. Raymond Hitchcock, infrequent player in Manhattan of late years, developed ingenious theories...