Word: courteousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sufficiently stanch to withstand the assaults of the bawdy crowd which sometimes overruns it. But the one feature of the place which distinguishes and crowns it is the service afforded by the attendants. These attendants have aroused the curiosity of all who meet them. They are not only courteous; they go out of their way to help their customers; they are always cheerful, in spite of the pressure which a hurried group puts often upon them. They are to be lauded as much for their superiority over the waitresses in the Houses and the waiters in the Square...
...general tone of your correspondence from Japan is hatefully cynical-and the effect is to make the Japanese seem to be a jumpy, excited, silly people, instead of being the sane, fine, courteous, peace-loving people they really...
...name spelled out and who contributed heavily to the Democratic campaign, resigned as president to serve another Roosevelt, as Ambassador to France. Herbert, who died last spring, was Macy's treasurer and president of Macy-owned L. Bamberger & Co. in Newark. The middle brother, Percy Selden. a precise, courteous, slightly nervous gentleman with thinning hair, is now in full command. Generally credited with being the brains of Macy's merchandising, he is always known to Macy's 8,000 employes as Mister Percy...
...Empress, after a single brief but courteous glance at this newcomer, had returned to the business which had been occupying her at the moment of Lord Tilbury's arrival. She pressed her shapely nose against the lowest rail of the sty and snuffled moodily...
Commodity Dollar. That night Secretary Hull was able to read to the Conference a second Roosevelt pronouncement so courteous in tone that the Continentals, whose feathers had been badly ruffled by what they considered the President's rude language and dictatorial air in his first message, were perceptibly smoothed down. Not retreating one inch. Mr. Roosevelt again refused gold stabilization between currencies but in effect persuasively invited the world to join the U. S. on a standard of managed currency and commodity money. "Revaluation of the dollar in terms of American commodities," he wrote, "is an end from which...