Word: courteousness
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...element of the Casino should be allowed" (TIME, Dec. 6), Exchange members expressed their reaction by hooting, whistling and booing on the floor of the Exchange, crying "Casino!" whenever they had trouble buying or selling at a desired price. Wall Street's official reaction was a painfully courteous promise by Charles R. Gay. president of the Exchange, to look into the situation...
...populace in general seems to be taking the whole affair very nonchalantly when they are not in mass demonstrations. The Japanese very deservedly have the reputation of being exceptionally courteous to foreigners. This courtesy is still present under the war situation, although every now and then some overworked official drops the veil for an instant to loose his pent up emotions...
...principal cities of Japan was filled with foreign refugees from Shanghai, most of them waiting eagerly for passage to the United States. The newspapers even claimed that large numbers of Chinese were fleeing the war zones to seek shelter in Japan, where they were being received with the most courteous treatment. The truth or falsity of this report was not easily ascertainable...
...gift of all: his $130 monthly salary as long as he lives, plus a tribute from the House of Representatives in fine oratorical style. Harry Parker, gleaming in the gallery, sporting a necktie as yellow as the pine-apple-orangeades he serves, heard himself declared faithful . . . loyal . . . cheery . . . diligent . . . courteous...
...encounter with the Dictator at which they exchanged high words and parted on terms of mutual contempt (TIME, July 8, 1935), the Personal sacrifice asked of the young British Foreign Secretary last week was great. Count Grandi few days later brought the British Cabinet an especially courteous cable signed by Il Duce who agreed to keep Bari quiet on Palestine for the present. Few observers in either London or Rome thought Premier Mussolini had done this open favor without receiving some secret concession from Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, presumably having to do with British policy on Spain...