Word: courteousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disliked all over South America and with reason. And then we wonder that England, who sends her best, the charming courteous Prince of Wales, wins their good will, and that the Germans, who speak perfect Spanish and Portuguese are arriving in shoals...
...Reprisals?" On the tariff side of Hon. Mr. Bennett's budget speech-and to hear U. S. squawks last week one might have thought there was no other side-the Canadian Premier made courteous pretense that he was not offering "reprisals" to the U. S. Hawley-Smoot Tariff upping (TIME, June 2, 1930). Mr. Bennett said that Canada's depressed "infant industries" and her unemployed workers were uppermost in his mind. By protecting industries he would make jobs. Indeed, two days after his speech Premier Bennett proudly explained just exactly why he raised the tariff on wire netting...
Enthusiastic, agile, courteous and inquisitive, Japanese ball players are not yet as good as U. S. minor leaguers, but could trounce many a U. S. college team. U. S. baseball missionaries are more welcome in Japan than any other kind. One of the most famed of these, a onetime big-leaguer named Herbert Hunter, announced last week that he had accepted a three-year contract as adviser to the new league...
...serene in Moscow. . . . There is no foundation in fact for any of the alarming reports. . . . Russia is one country that welcomes Americans. [Russian] customs officers and passport inspectors . . . are courteous and reasonable . . . a refreshing relief after the meticulous curiosity of the French, German and especially Polish functionaries. . . . There were nine Americans [going to Russia] on the train, and one was accompanied by his wife and son, aged eleven...
Vice President Curtis' gavel cut off the Thomas filibuster just as the Senator was apologizing "to the Senate and the country" for taking so much time, and thanking everybody for their "courteous attention...