Word: courteousness
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During a speech in bone-dry Oklahoma, Vice President Alben Berkley paused, eyed a glass of water skeptically, then handed it back with a firm but courteous answer: "I appreciate that very much, but I'm from Kentucky...
Five days later Brownie was put down (i.e., released to run) again to demonstrate his ability to freeze into courteous immobility when the dog ahead made a point. The official consensus: "Beautiful." Five-year-old Brownie was crowned the top U.S. bird dog for 1950; Trainer Evans got $1,500 prize money; Owner Livingston received a suitably inscribed gold trophy -and Grand Junction went back to being a whistle stop for another twelve months...
Failing this, it is up to reporters to get the news anyway. If the late great William Allen White of the Emporia Gazette could attend a Washington press conference nowadays, concluded Reston, "I think ... he would feel . . . that [reporters] had become a little too courteous . . . He'd want to know why there was just a handful of the large corps of Washington reporters probing into these life & death questions of atomic energy, the organization of the armed services, the conduct of our foreign policy ... I imagine he would tell us that officials in Washington or Emporia had always sought...
...With the courteous horror of the Lilliputians for the oafish Gulliver, British commentators have recently felt obliged to pin down the invading monster of American culture, and examine it at close range. One of them, Sir William Haley, director general of BBC, began plans last fall for a series of talks by qualified intellectuals on the impact of America on European culture. BBC's five lecturers-three Englishmen and an Irishman, with Harvard Professor Perry Miller concluding in rebuttal a fortnight ago-seemed to pull up two stakes for every one they drove, but succeeded here & there in tethering...
...rdenas in 1936, licenses had been limited to 5,000 individually owned cabs. Mexico's Supreme Court threw the decree out last year. In moved a fleet of 150 smartly painted cabs called Marfil Marrón (Ivory and Maroon), whose bonded, uniformed drivers were outrageously courteous to passengers, even providing them with electric shavers and the morning papers. When the newcomers, in a deft stroke of public relations, took residents of the Old Ladies' Home for free rides around town, the oldtimers found it too much to bear...