Word: politest
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...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...
Phyllis Padvano is a little girl of 8 who, no matter how badly she had to tell a person something, would never interrupt while he was talking. For that reason and others, last week Phyllis was crowned politest little girl in New York City. Sharing honors, as politest boy: G. William Kennell, 9, who would always give his seat to a lady in the subway, "unless I were too tired...
...magic wishing necklace that would enable the youngest camel to wish his mother to have her own little oasis out in the desert. By choosing the necklace the sensible youngest camel broke all precedents, since others had always chosen the bag of ashes because "it was the politest and nicest thing...
...vision of scholarship. It is a colorful series of pictures that Mr. Long draws from the letters and journals of these cager young men, all of whom gravitated to Goettingen to hear the giants of learning. Edward Everett, who was a Harvard A.B. at seventeen, preacher to "the politest congregation in Boston" at twenty-one, and ultimately president of Harvard, was the first American to earn the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Germany. His studies in his second year at Goettingen he lists as Roman Law, Archacology, Ciccro's de Oratore, Greek syntax and meters, Greek and Latin Composition...
...delivered an extremely graceful, circumlocutory and boring address, a brilliant example of how dull a great and able man can be at a formal function. He recalled his distinguished U. S. friendships, expatiated on the profession, on India, on Anglo-U. S. understanding and world depression. Only with the politest indirection did he remind the U. S. ''brethren" that when England moved her high courts to finer quarters 50 years ago, she followed the move with sweeping reforms in her legal procedure, "to quicken yet not to hurry justice...