Word: courteousness
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...this note a significance of magnitude as showing Mr. Hadden's tolerant attitude with regard to criticism. I had written TIME a caustic letter in regard to an item about Mr. Levine's evolutions in his lone flight from Paris to London. This note was his courteous reply...
...second violinist was courteous, but the misguided show-off had blundered. He might as well have told one of the six Floradora girls that not one of them could sing like old Seňora Floradora. For the Flonzaleys are as unrelated as most teams which have a single name.* There was no Mr. Flonzaley who fathered them all. There was instead a Swiss banker, Edward J. deCoppet, who wanted chamber music in the U. S. He appointed Violinist Alfred Pochon to establish a string quartet, and he named it after his Swiss villa, Flonzaley, which translated means "brooklet...
Without comment or elaboration Don Miguel's words were published. Meanwhile bombing planes were sent to circle above the revolting garrison. They dropped no explosives but courteous, imperative leaflets reading: "Surrender immediately, and return to your barracks. If you do not, you will be bombed tomorrow." Presently Lieutenant-Colonel Annibal Molto, commanding the rebels, drew his pistol, turned it upon himself, died like a gentleman and a Spaniard. His soldiers quietly awaited the arrival of an army corps from Madrid, then whooped up a hearty cheer for Dictator and King...
...four years Mr. Gilbert, a quiet, courteous, red-haired graduate of Rutgers, has been making the Dawes Plan work. Unquestionably his present report, with its searching analysis of Germany's capacity to continue her huge Reparations payments, will form the chief basis of fad upon which Tycoon Young and the Committee of Experts will base their decisions in revising the Dawes Plan...
...telegraph room. Mr. Hoover stood near a key in the Buenos Aires embassy and dictated what he wanted to say. Secretary Kellogg read the messages as his operator typed them out. He dictated replies. The substance of the conversation was that Mr. Hoover was enjoying himself among courteous friends; that President Coolidge, Secretary Kellogg and the U.S. people were glad to hear it and thanked the friends, sent them greetings...