Word: courteousness
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...father died, in 1925, and Young Bob succeeded to his Senate seat, he knew all the rules. Then at 30, he was the third youngest Senator in U.S. history.* He affected pearl grey spats, plastered-down hair and cake-eater sideburns. He was cherubic in countenance, shy and courteous in manner, and he lacked his father's oratorical fire and flourish. He was, his senatorial elders decided, a mere shadow of Fighting...
...icily courteous meeting with the young Marquess and his mates, Herr Lieberkuehn stuck by the law: the pink coats, hounds & horses must go. That night the Life Guards bundled up a supply of fireworks, threw in a few Very pistol flares to boot, and descended in the dark on Herr Lieberkuehn's house. It was a spectacular show, though it scared the maid half to death: she thought the Russians had finally crossed over from the East-West border only 20 miles away. Unfortunately, Herr and Frau Lieberkuehn were away at the movies, so the lads had to come...
Along about 1939 or 1940 the Federal government became interested in the CRIMSON from the standpoint of corporation taxes. Courteous but curious Internal Revenue agents wrote to the paper's president and business manager, requesting them to outline its legal and executive structure so that the Bureau would know what taxes to impose and which people to see about them...
...Most of us have simple, human dignity. Most of us feel gratitude to those who have served us-and saved us. Most of us prefer civility to rude insults. Most of us are courteous, and most of us mostly tell the truth. Hardly any of us common people are as common as Mr. Truman...
...with the Dever pin watched the police take the barriers apart and push them into their paddy wagon. "Damn good speaker," he said. "And damn decent. Makes a good impression. And a very courteous crowd, too. It's good that they gave him a hearing. He's a nice young man. Last time one like that came down here, it was Coolidge. They threw rocks. And then this Lodge's father was down once too. A very distinguished old gentleman. It's good to let people hear for themselves. I'm very glad they didn't throw rocks...