Word: courteousness
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Confronted with this charge, Cordell Hull was courteous and evasive as usual. But other correspondents were startled to note that for the first time in 18 years of covering the State Department, Bert Hulen was far from his usual peaceful, pipe-puffing self. Plainly irked by the Secretary's evasive generalities, he persistently demanded specific answers. But Mr. Hull would not be pinned down. All he would reveal was that the Department had indeed protested to London about premature leakage of diplomatic news which the two Governments had agreed to release simultaneously...
...consistent supporters of Mr. Hull. They had written him a respectful letter requesting "some explanation of your puzzling silence" about concrete U.S. foreign policy. After 150 minutes the 21 Republicans emerged wrapped in gloom. Said Maine's Robert Hale, onetime Rhodes scholar: "Mr. Hull was cordial and courteous, but I left with the same impression that I had when I went in-that the Administration has no foreign policy." New York's Bernard W. Kearney was briefer: "No hits, no runs, no errors." Others recalled an occasion when John Hay was Secretary of State, and conferred with...
...told a Manhattan reporter that Hollywood's wolves "should be beaten to death." She pushed the point that they were a talebearing species. "Some poor little girl comes to Hollywood. She's lonely. . . . The wolves call and call. . . . You have lunch . . . they'll seem so nice, courteous, and very correct. . . . Six months later the girl is supposed to be . . . the most horrible person in Hollywood. . . . They have an ego that has been frustrated...
They were courteous, kind and considerate...
...courteous, amiable, charming and all--And suffer dear guests as ye dance round the hall...