Word: courteously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...republic's armed forces (1200 men, constituting the sturdy male population between 16 and 60) be called upon to sell their lives in attempting to repulse the possible aggression of the Caesar of today? Signor Mussolini and his family received a welcome both formal and courteous-scarcely an ovation...
President Plutarco Elias Calles, once so brusque as to stigmatize "the grunts of the Pope" (TIME, July 26) replied with courteous inflexibility to the Archbishop...
...Super-Tuchun Feng Yu-Hsiang, former War Lord of Peking. Would not Super-Tuchun Wu, cried the delegates, add luster to his reputation as the exponent of China's former aristocracy by restoring a clinking golden aura to "The Son of Heaven?" Super-Tuchun Wu would not. Courteous but firm, he sent the delegates packing, declared that to accede to their request would lay him open to the charge of attempting to restore the Empire. . . . Meanwhile, at Tientsin, Henry P'u-yi and his consort, Elizabeth, continued their placid, adequate existence. He often pounds a type- writer-often...
Putting aside such thoughts, Rudyard Kipling received the gold medal with a smile, spoke a few words of courteous acceptance which circled the world's cables: "Recognition by one's equals and betters in one's own craft is a reward of which a man may be unashamedly proud. The fiction that I am worthy of that honor be upon your heads. . . . Yet at least the art that I follow is not an unworthy one. For fiction is truth's elder sister. Obviously, no one in the world knew what truth was until some...
...Smith. Boston lawyer Smith, lauded and feted a fortnight ago by effusively grateful Hungarians (TIME, July 5) made the retort courteous and gallant last week by returning to the Hungarian Government a cheque for $100,000 which was tendered him as his well-earned salary for two years of unremittent labor. Premier Count Stephen Bethlen of Hungary declared himself unable to find words in which to praise fitly such generosity from a man known to be far from rich. Straightway the cheque was deposited as "The Jeremiah Smith Hungarian Scholarship Fund." Every year two Hungarian students will travel memorially...