Word: courteousness
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Asked where he got the idea that the Luxembourg had fleas, the courteous fleaman said he had read about it in the American magazine TIME...
...leads a disciplined life and exercises a military discipline over others. He is even-tempered, courteous, gracious to the ladies. In the fieldstone house which he had the state build as the governor's summer mansion in Indiantown Gap, his polished boots and riding clothes are arranged in precise ranks. There his wife, Charity, has lovingly collected Pennsylvania Dutch antiques. One of the General's chief diversions is riding over the smoky Blue Mountains. He does not care so much for the old gloomy governor's house in Harrisburg...
...rises at 6:30 a.m., works seven days a week in Manila's sprawling stucco Malacañan Palace, smokes up to five packs of cigarets (Camels, Kools) a day, sees up to 500 people a week and takes books to bed with him. He is thin, tense, courteous, worldlywise. Eight weeks ago he made a flying trip to the U.S., where he was greeted by Daughter Maria Rosario, a student at Vassar, made an excellent impression in Washington as an energetic, businesslike administrator who realizes that the Philippines' best interests lie in close cooperation with...
...insuperable barrier to united Protestant action. He has pushed St. George's original 500 police membership to more than 3,000. Like their Holy Name colleagues, St. George members are required to attend church each Sunday, receive Holy Communion regularly, refrain from swearing and indecent language, be "polite, courteous and gentlemanly" at all times...
Veneer & Cockneys. Fatigue has left its mark. The incomparable veneer of British courtesy has cracked; too many Britons are too tired to be invariably courteous. Even British honesty, which had been no veneer, has cracked; thievery in the customs and shipping services, notably on incoming parcels of food and clothing, is now an open scandal. Black-marketeering prospers as it never did during the war's bad years-and it is no longer considered shameful to admit a part...