Word: courteousness
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...been in Manhattan; for a month, 52 of his paintings have been on exhibition in the Reinhardt Galleries, Fifth Avenue, while he, slipping up and down the same thoroughfare, has lifted his eyebrows at the city's towering cubes, pulled his mustache at its effervescent hostesses, been courteous to ladies who adored Art and worshipped macaroons, graciously eaten his dinner in houses where the butlers were gentlemen, in houses where the guests were lackeys, in houses where the company was so perfect as to appal epigram. In Manhattan are other artists, less dined. These read, in the Metropolitan press...
...every number, the house burst into bravos. Early in the evening a huge wreath, surmounted by the British and American flags, was placed on the stage. Her admirers came to praise. Repeatedly she tried to make the orchestra rise and bow with her, but that organization of astute and courteous musicians remained obstinately seated. They knew that Miss Leginska believed herself to be experiencing the only sensible gratification which the world affords to the thoughtful. They did not want anyone to think that, had Miss Leginska merely said to them: "Gentlemen, I wish you would play the Oberon overture, Beethoven...
...experimented with a vineyard in Albemarle County. importing skilled husbandmen from Italy. With the workmen came. Charles Bellini, citizen of Florence. Try as they would, however, Bellini and his men could grow no grapes for Jefferson. The vines sickened, withered, were abandoned. Whereupon Jefferson, in a gesture at once courteous and resourceful, had Bellini installed as a professor at William and Mary, then a sprightly institution only 86 years old. There Bellini stayed from 1779 to 1803, teaching Italian and Spanish, "first professor of modern languages...
...wine from an old peasant woman at the station at Caen; and several other things of like nature that I do not put down for publication because they came to me by report rather than as first-hand verity. In general, I believe the members of the Team were courteous and considerate and well-behaved; but so, in general, were the French audiences that watched the Games. At any rate, remembering always our immense numbers, and that irritating business of anthem and flag, it does not seem to me we were treated sufficiently badly to enable us to cast...
...name of the U. S. Government, M. Firmin Gémier, who has for many years been the director of Le Theatre National de I'Odéon of Paris, arrived in the U. S. to produce some of his famous plays. The invitation was not merely a courteous act toward M. Gémier, but a gracious recognition of France...