Word: courteousness
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...Barr's affable efficiency had won him a vice-presidency and the key post of corporation secretary. He survived the great man's purges partly by knowing when to keep his mouth shut. When he disagreed with Avery it was always in private and in a courteous manner. Barr is popular with the staff, has even won a Wolfson accolade: "In my book, he's tops...
...decaying Netting Hill section (it became "Rotting Hill" in one of his books) that has been their home for 20 years. Visitors are rare, with the exception of Lewis' old friend T. S. Eliot, who also keeps him supplied with champagne, Lewis' only drink. Though gentle and courteous to strangers, Lewis is too much on the boil ever to symbolize the cool peak of disciplined independence which he regards as the acme of civilization. His deepest strength lies in what Critic Geoffrey Grigson has called the brilliantly energetic "word-welding" to be found in Lewis' poems. These...
Personality & Private Life. Married, and the father of a daughter, he moved recently from his modest four-room apartment to the ornate Renaissance Premier's palace, Villa Madama. Pink-cheeked Premier Scelba likes good food and good wine, seldom smokes. Courteous, canasta-playing, flower-loving, he has a lawyer's respect for the letter and spirit of the law. When a high-placed Roman tried to get a government job for a friend, Scelba replied with icy politeness: "Dear Count, with full respect I must beg you to consider that I cannot take any account of your recommendation...
...ceremony over, the councilors arranged themselves for a photograph. Herrera pressed Batlle Berres to the front with the courteous "Please go ahead." Smilingly, the new President took the defeated candidate by the arm, sat by his side and said, "With your help, we shall go ahead...
...absurd joke, a mere poetic fantasy. They sat at his feet, bowed to his charm, reveled in the humor and radiance he shed. Their descriptions of him are mostly levelheaded and carry a ring of conviction. Wrote Sir Walter Scott: "I found Lord Byron in the highest degree courteous, and even kind . . . He was devoid of selfishness . . . generous, humane and noble-minded when passion did not blind him." Wrote Stendhal: "The profile of an angel, the gentlest of manners . . . the most amiable monster that I have ever seen . . . There was much petty vanity, a continual and puerile fear of appearing...