Word: courteousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Grafton Spuds, the Wonderbar Orchestra, and yes, the great Bill Baroon and His Paloreenies . . ." A marvelously spurious history of radio in Minneapolis produces "Wingo Beals and His Blue Movers," who lost their SunRise Waffle show at 5 a.m. daily to Slim Graves and His Southland Sheiks, featuring Courteous Carl Harper, the Guitar Man. "Rise and shine," Slim would tell his listeners every day, "sit up and howl, there's daylight in the swamps...
...State, he was in the office by 7 a.m. every day. He was candid with the press, unpretentious with colleagues and courteous with visitors, whom he often escorted to and from his office door. Slow-spoken and ruminative, with an open face and piercing eyes, Clark amiably acknowledges his limitations, but underplays his ambitions. He has proved an adept student of the protocols of Washington. Asked last week about his lack of credentials, he refused to take the bait. His answer: "I have left that determination to the man who made the decision, namely the President of the United States...
Jesse was five years younger than Brother Wriston (now 64 and a retired Woolworth store manager) and eight years older than Sister Mary Elizabeth (now 52 and a Monroe housewife). The family led a cozy, righteous life that makes sampler platitudes seem profound. The father, remembers a friend, "was courteous but firm as a rock. People knew he meant business. Young Jesse didn't argue with him." On Wednesday night the Helmses were always at First Baptist Church prayer meeting, and on Sunday morning at services. Fundamentalism perked all over North Carolina after World War I. Churchgoers quickened their step...
...Handbook has to say about food. Using a modified Socratic method, the editors have asked questions which an anthropomorphized Food Service answers. What, the observer may wonder, is the "objective" of Food Services? "The objective of the department is to provide you with a variety of excellent food and courteous service to fulfill your nutritional requirements and to add to your mealtime pleasure." And "what about good Nutrition?" "The variety of food that is offered on each daily menu is designed to meet amply your complete basic nutritional requirements," Food Service answers. But this is Harvard, with its emphasis...
...Please, folks, be courteous. Let those shy people with the five-dollar bills get through," bellows a smiling Van Alstyne...