Word: courteousness
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...trust this letter does not intrude unduly. The courteous welcome you give to correspondents invites these proofs of the attentive reading which TIME deserves and receives...
Fifty Manhattan Roman Catholics climbed about a United Fruit steamer in New York Harbor last week and kissed an amethyst ring. It was on the thick powerful finger* of a medium-sized cask of a man, whom two Mexican "very, very courteous" police sergeants a month ago had escorted out of Mexico, over the Guatemala border?Pasquale Diaz, Bishop of Tabasco, now exile. Newspapermen marveled at how, in the serenity of Catholic priesthood, this man's face had acquired its strained lines of truculence, combat and domination. He is a Jalisco Indian, born 1876 in Guadaljara, Mexico; trained by Jesuits...
...courteous Prefect, M. Cameau, did not welcome Mr. Lloyd George under the mistaken impression that his power is on the rebound in England. It is not. But the British coal strike has disrupted the business of thousands of Britons who would formerly have been able to afford a winter vacation on the Riviera. They have not come to Cannes, Nice, "Mo te,"* or Mentone. Therefore the arrival of Mr. Lloyd George was an occasion for demonstrating that tourists are excessively welcome...
Finally, Professor Murray spoke of his occupancy of the Poetry Chair, paying high tribute to Charles Eliot Norton, few whom the chair is named "Professor Norton had the spark of true inspiration." He declared, "I had the pleasure of meeting him, distinguished and courteous with a taste that was classical to an exquisite degree. He had a love for things that did not follow the fashion. It is most fitting that his memory should be honored in the gift dedicated to the attempt to bring home to others the eternal beauty upon which his own eyes were always fixed...
...found that the thing that bothered me most in China was the terrific heat The officials were all very courteous to me, and seemed to have a good opinion of Americans in general. Commercial trade and the merchant marine are all flourishing despite the war of which I personally saw no evidences China and the Pacific trade at present offer a promising future to the American business...