Word: courteousness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...attention has been drawn to the fact that you have used the title of one of my father's most famous books, A Study in Scarlet, for the page heading of a book review [TIME, Nov. 22]. I would suggest that it would have been a courteous, if customary, gesture to have included a note of acknowledgment at the foot of the page...
When arrested, both visitors and University students are turned over to Deans Watson and Bender. "We just catch them," Randall explains. "Sometimes the Cambridge and Boston police beat us to the punch. They aren't quite so courteous...
...Wojnowski, Poland's consul in Milan, Italy, was a bit subtler about it but he had the same general idea. A studious, courteous, bespectacled book collector, he had never been very happy in his consulate. Last summer, after a trip home, he cut out meat, ate only tea and toast for supper and gave up buying books. Staffers wondered why he was saving his pennies. Last week they found...
...Glen Cove, now leased as a weekend recreation spot for Russian U.N. staffers. Stanco said that he could see a pump working on the cesspool but he could not pursue his investigation further because the Russians would not let him inside the house. "You have your laws," said a courteous comrade, "and we have ours. Your American laws do not concern us. We do not need you here. You look after your people and we will look after ours." Sanitary facilities, he added, were "adequate...
Marshal Vasily Sokolovsky is a courteous man who likes Jane Austen's novels and earthy Russian proverbs. His favorite version of his favorite proverb before he walked out of the Allied Control Council meetings was: "I want to skin this bear before I shoot it." The bear is Berlin's city symbol. By this week, the Berlin bear looked pretty well skinned-and 3½ million Berliners wondered how close the Marshal's well-manicured finger was to the trigger...