Word: courteousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brisk, bearded young Italian, President Hoover opened the White House doors as wide as ever he did to a head-of-state. Four times Signer Grandi passed through the glass portals-once for a courteous "Excellency! Excellency!," once for a respectful "A rivederci," once for a great State dinner in his honor and once for a long private talk with the President. In the Lincoln Study three easy chairs were pulled before the fireplace. Into them sank Messrs. Hoover, Grandi & Stimson. Because of the Foreign Minister's good command of English, no interpreter was necessary...
...last week: Three months ago an Isotta-Fraschini salesman was twiddling his thumbs in the company's swank Manhattan showroom. An Isotta-Fraschini is not sold every day. A passerby stopped, peered in. When he came in and started inquiring about the one he liked, the salesman was courteous. When he pulled out a checkbook, asked for a pen, the salesman was startled. When he wrote out a check for $18,500, departed leaving directions that the car be sent to the New York Athletic Club, the salesman looked at the check, was amazed. The signatory was BELIEVE...
...buttonhole. Mr. Borah is no man to retreat. He repeated his opinions on the Polish Corridor, but added by way of diplomacy that he did not pretend to be completely informed. Ambassador Filipowicz drew himself up in his diplomatic uniform, with all his decorations jangling, and made the retort courteous: "I congratulate you, Senator, on your moral courage-in admitting the incompleteness of your knowledge...
...Bloom: The surrender scene was most dignified, most pleasant, most courteous in every respect. To run a pageant without it would be like having a motion picture without an ending...
...started the rate-increase ball rolling last May, was inspecting his new Chicago & Alton property in Kansas City. Drumming his fingers nervously he there declared: "We can't take the public by the nape of the neck and force it to ride. We can only give it such courteous and fair treatment that it will want to ride. The railroads come back? They haven't been any where. The only reason railroad business is bad is because all kinds of business is bad. . . . The railroads never will get back the travel constantly turning to private automobiles. The public...