Word: courteousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...town. He gets the knife before anyone else in town but he is dead by that time anyway. A bullet killed him. A strumpet who thinks Dallas did it is murdered presently. The third victim is Jurden Keye's mean-tempered female housekeeper. Detective Brady ? mild, courteous, less loquacious than most fictional sleuths?has eight suspects to work with. Like Author Scott's readers, he does not think that Dallas did the shooting...
Mayor Walker did not have to look far to discover his chief foe. Leaning casually against the rail of the Press box was the committee's counsel, grey-haired Samuel Seabury, pontifical, bland, courteous, smiling, maddening. For this moment Inquisitor Seabury had patiently labored for 14 months, relentlessly cutting his way through the city's political jungle, confident that he would come at last to its heart-the Mayor's office in City Hall. At stake were not only His Honor's honor, but His Honor's job and perhaps his liberty as well...
...buys them from his friends when they are through with them. A clean piece of manuscript paper strikes terror to his heart. He writes his tunes on old scores or he may scuff on a piece of paper until it looks properly seasoned. He is quiet, courteous, scholarly. He lives in Bronxville, N. Y. where for him the event of last week was his 13-year-old daughter's graduation from grammar school...
...Detroit, delighted to see a sign "Big Premiere-Price 5?" outside a long-closed cinema theatre, 95 patrons bought tickets from a courteous boy in the box office, gave them to another boy, were ushered to seats by a third. The show failed to begin. "Hey, when does the show start," shouted an impatient patron. One of the boys stepped from behind the curtain. "There has been a slight delay due to a mechanical defect," he announced. "Please be patient." So patient were the patrons that not for an hour did they discover that the boys and the receipts...
Surfeited with such honors Briand wired his courteous but absolute refusal, suggesting Pierre Laval. By this time the Oustric scandal was somewhat cold, the constantly shifting lineup of the Chamber had altered, and sturdy Auvergnat Laval was able not only to form a Cabinet but to smuggle into it as Minister of Agriculture his friend André Tardieu...