Word: courteousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wrathful indeed was Statesman Stimson at the Post. Turning to the resounding publicity board of his own department, he issued a formal statement in which he explained that Secretary Adams' absence was due to a courteous limitation of the size of the Woodley meeting, that Secretary Adams had voluntarily abstained from that meeting, and had actually suggested its participants. Continued Statesman Stimson...
Americans hear and read so often of the French view, that the horde of tourists from the United States annually visiting that country are loud, ill-bred, uncouth and make a vulgar display of money, that one wonders why the "retort courteous" is not more often resorted...
Beaming, the Vice President explained: "It was the decent thing to do. It was the nice thing to do. It gives us great pleasure to do what we think the courteous thing...
...France?said that they would favor establishment of a ''United States of Europe" in the form of a federation both political and economic. The Germans, Spanish, Dutch and Scandinavians wanted a purely economic "U. S. E." The British, Italians, Hungarians and Albanians were understood to have taken an attitude courteous but noncommittal. Finally "between a pear* and some cheese" M. Briand rose. Would they all authorize him, he asked, to send a circu- lar memorandum and questionnaire to their governments, inviting collaboration and suggestions as to the form which a "United States of Europe" might finally take? It was little...
...Jones, the galleries dwindled. Chandler Egan of Medford, Ore., designer of the Pebble Beach course, National Amateur Champion in 1904 and 1905, drew a few spectators as he eliminated two formidable contenders, the West's George Von Elm and the East's Jess Sweetser. But hardly anyone watched homely, courteous Francis Ouimet, National Champion in 1913 and 1914, beat Lawson Little. Only the stancher spirits and the prolix newspapermen witnessed the semi-finals in which Dr. Oscar F. Willing, deliberate dentist of Portland, Ore., downed courageous Oldster Egan, and Harrison ("Jimmy") Johnston kindly but firmly eliminated Francis Ouimet...