Word: courteousness
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...debt talk, the President-elect agreed with the President: "I firmly believe in the principle that an individual debtor should at all times have access to the creditor; that he should have an opportunity to lay facts and representations before the creditor and that the creditor always should give courteous, sympathetic and thoughtful consideration. . . . This rule is a basic obligation of civilization. It applies to nations as well as to individuals...
...supposed, decisive way of rejecting it. The main objection to my confirmation came from men who thought it safer to trust a literary man or a minister to be just to science than a scientific man to be just to literature, philosophy and art. The whole discussion has been courteous and edifying...
...League Council chair while Mr. Matsuoka talked, sat President Eamon de Valera of the Irish Free State. Once or twice Lord Lytton reddened as the Japanese diplomat gave the Lytton Report the courteous lie direct. With head thrown back China's Smart Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo stared at the ceiling until Mr. Matsuoka sat down and the council recessed...
...courteous French way of easing a man to the guillotine is to set excellent meals before him for several days previous, offer him brandy & cigarets at dawn and finally for the ornate Garde Républicaine to salute the condemned as he walks from the police van to death. All these amenities were offered last week to Paul Gorgulov. Russian slayer of the President of the Republic, Paul Doumer (TIME...
...town. He gets the knife before anyone else in town but he is dead by that time anyway. A bullet killed him. A strumpet who thinks Dallas did it is murdered presently. The third victim is Jurden Keye's mean-tempered female housekeeper. Detective Brady ? mild, courteous, less loquacious than most fictional sleuths?has eight suspects to work with. Like Author Scott's readers, he does not think that Dallas did the shooting...