Word: courteousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With reference to your excellent and courteous recognition of the passing away of Stoddard King in Spokane, Wash, last week [TIME, June 26], it is noteworthy and lamentable that the work by which a fine creative mind is best known is usually the one by which he would least prefer to be known. Stoddard King's work matured to such extremely fine flights of puckish fancy in his later years that the continual reference to the fact that he wrote "The Long, Long Trail'' irritated him. Many of us often thought that King would have liked...
...dark mustachioed 54-year-old Scotsman, the Hon. Michael Scott, fifth son of the third Earl of Eldon, uncle of the present Earl. He had long ago won the Australian Open twice and the Australian Amateur four times, but never an important tournament in England. His scrupulously courteous self-confidence indicated that he considered this a curious oversight which deserved to be corrected...
Such Negro readers of the "white" Press as were aware of the troubles of ex-Publisher Edward Beale McLean of the Washington Post and Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean last week found vague analogy in the adventures of their own most famed publishing family. No. 1 Negro publisher is capable, courteous Robert Sengstacke Abbott, 62, founder-owner of the Chicago Defender ("World's Greatest Weekly")* and Abbott's Monthly, only Negro fiction magazine. Like Publisher McLean he is a loyal Republican. His wife, Mrs. Helen Thornton Abbott, who says she thinks she is 36 but is not certain...
Less childish and more courteous would have been renaming the dam by the more accurate though less euphonious title of "Black Canyon Dam," as this would have implied some other reason besides politics for the change...
...Very courteous were the Senators to their guests. Very affable Mr. Morgan, wholly unlike his dictatorial father who gave blunt answers to the Pujo Committee 20 years ago. Very earnest-every inch the prosecutor-was Mr. Pecora. Very courtly Morgan's learned counsel. Mr. Davis. Only flare-ups of anger were between testy Senator Glass and Mr. Pecora over the course which the inquiry was taking. Mr. Glass, long a severe critic of our bankers, grew impatient with the mass of curiosity-questions not pertinent to the banking questions. Senator most critical of Morgan was Mr. Couzens...