Word: courteousness
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...forest clearing. General Keitel turned over the dining car to them, where, with five secretaries, they went over the terms article by article. Article by article they discussed them with Bordeaux from the tent. Article by article they tried to get concessions from General Keitel, who was courteous but firm. Late in the afternoon of the second day, General Keitel sent word to them that their time was nearly up. General Huntziger sent word back that the French were ready. Once more Frenchmen and Germans faced each other across the green baize table...
...more a German lake, was hardly calculated to increase the security of Leningrad, for which Russia has just fought one costly war. Since Germany went into Norway, shipment of Russian materials to Germany has slowed down, through inefficiency, misroutings, losses and other deeply regretted causes. Russia has been very courteous in its dealings with both Finland and Sweden, and last week Ambassador Ivan Maisky had a long talk with British Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Richard Austen Butler about the possibility of a trade agreement with Great Britain. This week the possibility of such an agreement seemed likelier as Ambassador...
...from resorting to the repressive methods of a more pious age, the guardians of Harvard's dietary welfare have now lent a courteous ear to student complaints. Although demurring to some of the conclusions of the Student Council's Food Report, they have promptly acted on one of its proposals; and an expert has been hired to investigate the alleged inefficiency in the Dining Halls. This is a conciliatory gesture which must be appreciated; but whether it is more than a gesture only the future can show...
Last week, March 18, I was plenty tickled with the way you wrote your article about me being spanked by the SEC. I expect maybe I ought to be scaired but it didn't hurt a bit. The letter the SEC wrote me was just a plain courteous letter, with no threatening and no cuss words, telling me that I had violated the law in advertiseing for a partner in a Public newspaper...
...first glance, few people would think of Walter Lippmann as a great detective. Courteous, well-read, softspoken, with a vocabulary greater than Sherlock Holmes's (and far more normal habits), he could talk international finance with Morgan partners, politics with Presidents, and seem much more like a reassuring expounder of broad issues than a practical political dopester. But last week genteel Columnist Waiter Lippmann solved a mystery that had baffled some of the keenest political detectives in the U. S. It was the Mystery of the Third Term, or Will President Roosevelt Run Again...