Word: courteousness
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...most influential owner currently active on the U. S. turf. His Gallant Fox won the Kentucky Derby in 1930. went on to become for a time the greatest U. S. money horse ($328,165) and, by siring Omaha, the third derby winner to beget another derby winner. Tall, quiet, courteous, Mr. Woodward grew so excited during Gallant Fox's three-year-old campaign that he lost co Ib. He plans to start Omaha on a similar campaign with the Preakness this week at Pimlico, near the Belair stud where Woodward horses are raised along Mr. Woodward...
Page upon page of the report was devoted to the Bowman personality. The professors found him "a man of extraordinary personal charm, unassuming in manner, always courteous but never offensively so . . . a man of culture sensitive to the esthetic side of life, a man whose true nature is that of the artist and the mystic...
Packard's president is Alvan Macauley, a courteous cultured gentleman of 62 who heads the Industry's trade association. He likes to whittle period furniture and part models in his basement workshop, likes skeet shooting, likes to read in his bath. He is also a smart salesman who learned his trade under the late great John Patterson of National Cash Register. Months before the Show he began to hint broadly at a new low-priced edition of Packard's swank eights, super-eights and twin-sixes-but he kept his public guessing. Packard had dipped into...
...their tax by an adroit ruse. Science has evolved no means of detecting a listening set, but Scotland Yard has evolved a van full of impressive looking gadgets. This vehicle rumbles about, stopping here & there at random. "Our detector indicates that perhaps you have a wireless," a courteous bobby tells an English householder who is paying no tax. "May we inspect your premises?" Premises are inspected until sooner or later a bootleg receiver is found, and Scotland Yard scores again with its purely psychological detector...
Associate Justice Pierce Butler of Minnesota used to be a law partner of William D. Mitchell, President Hoover's Attorney General. Mr. Justice Sutherland, a courteous old gentleman of 72, has angered liberals because he resolutely holds in his opinions that most efforts of states to regulate industry were contrary to the 14th ("due process of law") Amendment. Mr. Justice Butler has them equally enraged. He resolutely holds against citizenship for pacifists and for convictions for criminal syndicalists...