Word: courteousness
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...recognize a host of old friends and comrades-in-arms. The first to make him welcome would naturally be Alexander Hamilton Stephens from Georgia, his colleague in the House, his Vice President in the Confederacy. General Lee, trim and spruce as he was in life, would have a courteous greeting for his commander-in-chief...
...never been known to exhibit any signs of embarrassment. Every year he goes abroad in a cattleboat and returns in the Imperial Suite of the Bremen with Charles Lindbergh and Gene Tunney. He knows his James Joyce and can quote Millay by the hour. Above all, he is always courteous, correct, and an extremely presentable young gentleman, despite the fact that he has usually imbibed more imported grade A spirits than Bismarck could have consumed in his halcyon days...
...Artist Brush is still too courteous to become much exercised over the accusations of dissatisfied patrons. He lives in a farmhouse at Dublin, N. H., but is wintering at Oyster Bay, L. I. His eight children, of whom three have died, grew up in the West while Artist Brush was painting Indians. They learned to pose before they learned to read and received little formal schooling. His four girls are now married; one to a Cabot, one to a Coates, one to a Bowditch, one to Inventor Winslow Pierce...
Wrathful indeed was Statesman Stimson at the Post. Turning to the resounding publicity board of his own department, he issued a formal statement in which he explained that Secretary Adams' absence was due to a courteous limitation of the size of the Woodley meeting, that Secretary Adams had voluntarily abstained from that meeting, and had actually suggested its participants. Continued Statesman Stimson...
Americans hear and read so often of the French view, that the horde of tourists from the United States annually visiting that country are loud, ill-bred, uncouth and make a vulgar display of money, that one wonders why the "retort courteous" is not more often resorted...