Word: civility
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Last week, there came revolution to Ecuador. Troops in Quito, the capital, and Guayaquil captured the civil and military authorities at both places, jailed them. General Francisco Gomez de la Torre was proclaimed Military Chief of Government. The people were given to understand that the coup had been planned to end maladministration. There was no bloodshed, little excitement...
...Their lordships were informed by Earl Stanhope, Civil Lord of the Admiralty, that the Singapore naval base would not be "a great base for concentration," but "comparatively a minor establishment." Lord Balfour (ex-Premier A. J. Balfour), one of the two elder British statesmen (the other is ex-Premier Lord Roseberry), rose to scoff politely at Labor and Liberal opposition to the base. Said...
...Manhattan, one Henry Gettis, Negro Civil War veteran, passed the morning sitting beside the riverside tomb of General Ulysses S. Grant, removed himself later to a park in the lower part of town, decided to rest on a bench. While he sat there a laborer, one Luke Owens, 49, passed by, stopped to curse, to abuse Gettis for his idleness. When reproved, he issued a profane challenge to fisticuffs. A crowd formed. Up leapt Mr. Gettis. His old hand, rivered with dull veins, blotched along the back with great patches like distended freckles, hardened into a knot, smote the bully...
...Beginning August 1, the new plan will gradually be put into effect. merit Appointments basis under the (although new not a part system of the "civil service") and poll ^Beginning August 1, the new plan will gradually be put into effect...
...seaplanes which I believe has not since been exceeded. I was accompanied on this flight by three other pilots and we took turns during, the flight One of these officers, Lieut. Irvine, is still in the service; another, Ensign Thomas, is dead, and the third, Ensign Souther is in civil life. This flight is on record in the Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Department...