Word: courteousness
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...disliked all over South America and with reason. And then we wonder that England, who sends her best, the charming courteous Prince of Wales, wins their good will, and that the Germans, who speak perfect Spanish and Portuguese are arriving in shoals...
Enthusiastic, agile, courteous and inquisitive, Japanese ball players are not yet as good as U. S. minor leaguers, but could trounce many a U. S. college team. U. S. baseball missionaries are more welcome in Japan than any other kind. One of the most famed of these, a onetime big-leaguer named Herbert Hunter, announced last week that he had accepted a three-year contract as adviser to the new league...
...serene in Moscow. . . . There is no foundation in fact for any of the alarming reports. . . . Russia is one country that welcomes Americans. [Russian] customs officers and passport inspectors . . . are courteous and reasonable . . . a refreshing relief after the meticulous curiosity of the French, German and especially Polish functionaries. . . . There were nine Americans [going to Russia] on the train, and one was accompanied by his wife and son, aged eleven...
Vice President Curtis' gavel cut off the Thomas filibuster just as the Senator was apologizing "to the Senate and the country" for taking so much time, and thanking everybody for their "courteous attention...
...Department of Justice and the Treasury Department were also courteous to Medicine during the 20 months the Wickersham Commission performed its research. Federal agents were cognizant of a familiar practice of certain doctors in every city. Many a doctor uses few or none of his liquor prescriptions for patients actually or nominally ill. But many a doctor has signed in blank the balance of his prescriptions, giving a fictitious patient's name. Many a doctor has vended such legalized prescriptions to druggists or bootleggers at from $1 to $1.50 per blank. On the authority of such falsified prescriptions tipplers...