Word: courteousness
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...outside Chicago. 135 of the country's top-notch colored golfers (including 16 women) met for the 13th annual Negro championships of the U. S. Thirty-four played for money. 101 for fun. Some carried their own clubs, others paid white caddies $1 a round. All were extremely courteous to the lone white competitor, a local enthusiast named Charles Hlavacek who entered the tournament because he disliked to interrupt his habit of playing daily on the Palos Park course...
These and a string of greater & lesser scoops stretching back a generation have come to Vladimir Poliakoff because he is a brilliant, self-assured, courteous Russian-Jewish gentleman who has ingratiated himself with the most impeccable diplomatic connections in Europe. His recipe: "Know your man ten years before you need him; give more than you take." In London he has profited recently by being thick with the Italian Embassy, perhaps partly because he strikingly resembles a jesting Mussolini. But he is suing the London Daily Worker for criminal libel because it said he was a liaison man in the British...
Inexpensive food, courteous service are added to the convenient location at North Station. Good for a snack before, and a meal after the game...
...school-boy, reading of him, is likely to imagine him a great brute of a man, whereas he was really slight, with thin lips, jet black hair, keen eyes, and a perpetually courteous air. Like Freidrich Nietzche, whom he most resembles in historical significance, he was an unhappy man. He seemed never to attain his ends, never to be near enough the throne to wield the sceptre, never able to find a champion for his cause. Patriotism devoured him, yet America had her Sam Adams whose name is far from disrepute...
...opinion of many of my friends that your editorial and account of the reception of Jane Anderson reflects discredit on Harvard undergraduates. I think you should point out that the great majority of Harvard students there were courteous in spite of political faith, and that as well as catcalls, there was plenty of applause. The unruly elements were a small number of Communists who came, not to listen to the lecture, but to cause a disturbance. And most of these Communists are Student Union members and leaders...