Word: courteousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This characteristic, but courteous, inefficiency, has led to the plan which will allow the individual House library committees to order their books directly or through some agent of their selection. This plan is the intelligent solution of a problem created solely by the failure of the College Library to handle successfully the book orders of the Houses...
...mind just what type ... it wants to be. Its first issue is a mongrel affair . . . should have prominent writers among its contributors. . . . The only explanation [of the crude art work] I can suggest is the somewhat improbable one that Editor Abbott himself drew the pictures." The Publisher. Amiable, courteous Robert Sengstacke Abbott is 60 years old, has three automobiles (Rolls-Royce, Cunningham, Fierce-Arrow) ; has traveled extensively in Europe and South America. A Republican, he does not dabble in politics, refused to run against Chicago's Negro Congressman Oscar De Priest. He was educated at Beach Institute (Savannah), Claflin...
...Commander Charles Kingsford-Smith, Atlantic & Pacific crosser, flying to marry Mary Powell at Melbourne; Captain F. R. Matthews, who crashed between Bankok and Singapore; Hon. Mrs. Victor Bruce, who intends to go around the world by easy stages. Last week her motor failed over the mountains near Jask, Persia. Courteous hillmen brought her mechanical...
Prince Arthur, representing the Royal Family, sat ramrod stiff at the head of the glistening Guildhall board, waited with just the proper, courteous inclination of his head for James Henry ("Jimmy") Thomas, Secretary of State for the Dominions, to propose his very good health...
This singularly lovely woman seldom does or says the expected thing. A potent U. S. tycoon (in Rumania about a loan) once complimented H. R. H. upon her beautiful topaze eyes. "Thank you," she said, "I am glad you like them. They are very little use to me."* Courteous but disconcerting, this reply is wholly typical. In vain last week Nicholas, Carol, Marie and His Holiness?the whole Rumanian pack?argued with her and pleaded. She would agree to nothing...