Word: courteousness
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Secretary Davis sent out a second batch of telegrams. A few "big fellows" who wanted to be courteous to the Administration accepted.† But the handful of operators who turned up in Washington were mostly "little fellows" who feel the coal industry's ailment almost as painfully as Labor feels...
...been doused in foamy soapsuds, the same sad mastiff eyes. His nose was shiny and a little bulbous. His speech had a genial and sarcastic tang for the silly staring people who came to see him, his mind retained a vast curiosity and with it inevitably, a courteous and inclusive scepticism, an uncertainty, an almost universal doubt. "He habitually formed so humble an estimate of the value of his works that he was generally surprised at the interest they created...
Just Fancy. Again the fable of a prince who loved madly but, for his country's sake, not morganatically. Perhaps it was not considered courteous to the current genial heir to Britain's throne to make him into a musical comedy. Accordingly the flashback method was dragged out, dusted off, and from a modern prolog the story shifted to a tale of Edward VII adventuring in the U. S. This, of course, meant crinolines; and humor, unfortunately, to match. Pretty tunes and pretty Ivy Sawyer contributed gently. Raymond Hitchcock, infrequent player in Manhattan of late years, developed ingenious theories...
...Army Ordnance Association's* ninth display at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md., the biggest U. S. demonstration of destructive devices since the War. Bombs dropped and banged. Tanks lurched and rumbled. Field artillery galloped and crackled. Machine guns chattered. Smoke screens fumed. The courteous Signal Corps advised through loudspeakers: "We advise our guests to place their fingers in their ears," but only a few heard, having rammed in ear wadding before the 16-inch chaos was followed by two more convulsions, one from an 8-inch Navy rifle, one from a 12-inch howitzer...
...Courteous centaurs again pranced out upon the smooth surface of In- ternational Field, Meadow Brook Club, Long Island. Thousands clamored in the light blue grandstands. Thomas Hitchcock Jr. smote the first goal and the U. S. team led the British team. Hitchcock Jr. smote the second goal; and the third. He smote five goals in the game; J. Watson Webb smote two; Devereux Milburn, U. S. captain, one. Malcolm Stevenson, fourth player on the team, smote none, but played valiantly. In the seventh chukker he slipped from his horse and lay, a white figure, on the green grass. His knee...