Word: courteousness
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...nearly crazy. Budd's hottest competitor, the Union Pacific, - also in has fact a it was handsome the first in streamline the train field of its with own it. In his perplexity, Budd telegraphed Union Pacific for help. Carl Gray, president of Union Pacific, did the generous and courteous thing. He had the necessary spare part in his shops in Omaha. It was rushed out to Denver by airplane over night and so the Zephyr was able to make its record breaking run and Ralph Budd's face was saved. . . . EDWARD HUNGERFORD New York City Pastor...
Frank Hamer is 6 ft. 2 in., weighs 200 lb. and is reputed to be one of the best bagatelle players in the U. S. He wears a big black hat and his trousers outside his boot tops, speaks little and that little in a slow, courteous drawl. In Texas his marksmanship and speed on the draw are famed. His favorite revolver he calls "Betty" and some 60 badmen have died at his hand. For 27 years before November 1932, he was a Texas ranger. "When they elected a woman governor for the second time," he explained, "I quit...
...would run off smoothly as usual but it was not to be. They deemed that this would be a good chance to get the author of "Anthony Adverse" which is still the country's best-seller, to autograph the House Library's copy, and it would also be a courteous gesture. But, is and beheld, there was no copy to be found. The thing went along for a while and the House Committee confidently fait that some generous member of the House would make the contribution...
...Continued on p. 73) that I might send him an etching or a print of a sailing ship. The official reply, couched in the usual courteous phrasing said...
...Amabric Bancel. Dr. Walter Beran Wolfe showed a polychromed terra cotta Self Portrait with black lips, a plaster pictorialization of his name which consisted of a bear with a W in his left paw astride a wolf. The latter he called a "glyptogram." Dr. Frank H. Netter had a courteous portrait of Dr. Charles Norris, New York's Chief Medical Examiner. Opthalmologist Percy Fridenberg, club president, was represented by a series of vague flowers which he made by drawing on wood, cardboard or metal thickly spread with pastels, dampening sheets of paper and printing. Most finished painters were...