Word: politest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator Burton K. Wheeler achieved the age of 64 in Washington, and, striking a preprandial birthday pose for photographers, achieved something more remarkable : simply staring at a quarter of buffalo he managed to look as if he were giving his brightest, politest attention to a talkative constituent...
...politest dispute on record. All over the East and Midwest, motherly, well-dressed women emerged as labor leaders. The pickets outside telephone buildings sang the latest swing tunes instead of old trade-union chestnuts like Solidarity Forever...
George Marshall refused to approve such a bill. Although the new rank had the President's approval, he did not think it necessary. For once, Congressmen could agree with the politest form of turndown used in Army correspondence: "Not favorably considered...
...close of each year U.S. publishers, politest of businessmen, review the successes of competing firms with the outward suavity and smoldering wrath of tigers in a jungle. Usually the triumphs of lively newcomers are most dreaded. But this year the talk and envy of the trade is a centenarian-Boston's house of Little, Brown...
...tall, lean and lithe as a whip. It was said that he kept flat-waisted by bowing gracefully. He had plantation manners-the soft-voiced courtesy of his Vicksburg, Miss, breeding. But he was tough, too, in the tradition of Westerners, never more dangerous than at his extreme politest, with a laconic wit that shot from...