Word: courteousness
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...Italian bankers knew that Mr. Simmons had been received in private audience by their King (TIME, April 7), had been afforded every courtesy by Il Duce. They expected him to say something courteous in return. He doubled, tripled their expectations...
Clemenceau, a few short weeks before Death came to him (TIME, Dec. 2), wrote the Earl's most adequate epitaph, recalled that at the Peace Conference "Mr. Arthur Balfour [was] the most cultured, the most gracious, the most courteous of adamantine...
...been able to make his hands behave, gave up art for surveying, then became Mayor of Creille, tiny mountain village in the Maritime Alps," not far from Nice. There he ruled supreme, a benevolent despot. Fontenay, an English painter, meets Mayor Tombarel, falls under the spell of his courteous, charm, becomes a frequent visitor, a fast friend. In the shady garden of Tombarel's mountain house or in Fonte-nay's villa at Nice the old Frenchman passes many an hour in wordy reminiscence. At each encounter he narrates an episode, always honorable, not always legal...
...courteous gesture President Gaston Doumergue asked former President and Prime Minister Raymond Poincare, "Savior of the Franc," to form a cabinet. He replied that, although recovered from his prostate trouble (TIME, Dec. 23), he has not the strength to re-enter politics just yet. As a matter of course the President's next play in the old fashioned game of Parliamentary euchre was to call on M. Tardieu to form Cabinet No. 20. It took him all the rest of the week to do it, and there was no guarantee that 20 would...
...board president of St. Louis' Washington University); Irwin Boyle Laughlin (Jones & Laughlin, steel; U. S. Ambassador to Spain); John Campbell Merriam (president of Washington's Carnegie Institution), Frederic Adrian Delano and Dwight Whitney Morrow, Congress had first to pass a joint resolution approving him. With quick and courteous unanimity, the Senate approved such a resolution. Next day Wisconsin's Progressive Senator Robert Marion La Follette rushed upon the Senate floor demanding withdrawal of the Senate's approval of Mr. Stone. The La Follette objection: Mr. Stone is a public utility tycoon...