Word: politest
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...symbolic ribbon to release the tide of amiability that promised to engulf the land. Even France's bureaucrats were told to smile, but there was one breed of Frenchmen that not even Ranville's crusaders dared touch. A plan to present a prize to the politest French taxi driver was hastily dropped. Explained Ranville: "We would have wasted too much time looking...
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...