Word: courteousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Norfolk was "England's Most Eligible Bachelor," and Mrs. Stanley Baldwin went to his wedding with matronly feelings duplicated outside the church by Englishwomen so enthusiastic that some, striving for a better view, staged a sit-down strike in the middle of the street until lifted aside by courteous Bobbies. Partly because the Protestant bride has not yet become Catholic (as both families expect she will) and partly because nothing could add lustre to a wedding so entirely aristocratic, the candles were unlighted, the Oratory was undecked and two of the six page boys, swank moppets dressed...
...President regrets that because of the rush of official business, he is unable to accept the courteous invitation to be present at the ceremonies attending the Inauguration of the President of the United States, January twentieth, nineteen hundred thirty seven...
...knew he was threatened with tuberculosis but would never admit it, refused to be examined. Potent Alexey Suvorin, editor of St. Petersburg's Novoe Vremya, biggest Russian daily, read some of Chekhov's stories, was impressed, sent for him. Chekhov described their first interview: "He was very courteous and even shook hands with me. 'Do your best, young man,' he said. 'I am satisfied with you, only go to church often, and do not drink vodka. Breathe at me!' I did. Suvorin, not noticing any vodka odor, turned and called...
...then be coming well-known with his magazine stories and Author Williams was sent to locate him by the Sunday World's editor, who hired O. Henry to write a story a week, for $100 apiece. Then about 40, 0. Henry was heavyset, thick-featured, brown-haired, courteous, extremely reserved about his past and generally silent in company. Author Williams had known him for years before he learned that the short-story writer had served a prison term in Ohio for embezzling a bank. The short-story writer and the cub reporter quickly became friends, with Williams showing...
...stopped off in Spokane, Wash, long enough to get himself named "Chief Black Hawk" by the Flathead Indians. This warlike title he bore gracefully. Mr. Fleming, amiable and solid as he is jolly, reminded the bankers that during the year Congress and the Administration had given A. B. A. "courteous and attentive consideration." Banks had been excluded from the provisions of the law taxing undistributed earnings. "Splendid cooperation" had been received from the Government in a survey aimed at ending "competition between banks and government lending agencies...