Word: politest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senorita Mercedes Castellanos achieved politest world renown (TIME, April 23) when it was announced at Madrid that she, an orphan & a spinster of 47, would shortly be taken to wife by the Dictator of Spain, General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, Marquis de Estella...
...Swiss millionaire, has been found dead in the laundry basket is disturbed by ribald yells from the galleries and the sound of cracking peanut shells. It is a far cry from the old days when "Pygmalion" was such a success that it ran for two weeks, and the politest of Back Bay hand clapping greeted the first American performance of Pinero's "Big Drum...
Bennett, correspondent, printed an able pen sketch of Colonel Winship: "He is the embodiment of Sir Philip Sidney's definition of a gentleman. But Blanton Winship of Georgia is not only the politest man in the Army of the United States. He is more than manners. He is a gifted lawyer and a fine soldier. He is an exceptional horseman and always has owned good horses...