Word: civility
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...many and so varied were last week's despatches relative to the Chinese civil war (TIME, Sept. 8 et seq.) that they passed comprehension. Bloody fighting in the North and bloody fighting around Shanghai took place without decisive result. Losses were heavy. A rumor persisted that many of the Peking Government's troops had gone over to the enemy. One report stated that Super-Tuchun Chang of Manchuria was advancing on Peking; the rest that he was retiring on Mukden, his capital. The only report that all were agreed upon was one describing the opening by Chang...
...accepting the laws of the other country, "travel, rent, purchase and in general devote themselves to commerce and industry in the territories of the other." Another feature is that neither of the two countries will make the other responsible for damages sustained by its nationals during times of civil...
...Student. Conan Doyle was educated under the iron rod of the 'Jesuits. Said one of his masters, hearing that he proposed to be a civil engineer: "Well, Doyle, you may be an engineer, but I don't think you will ever be a civil one." He was perpetually in scrapes, liked to fight. Later, at Edinburgh University, studying medicine, he met a bearded barrel of a man, original of "Professor Challenger" in The Lost World. There, also, was Joseph Bell, surgeon, whose specialty was diagnosis through observation and deduction. Bell was the original Sherlock Holmes...
Mexico. When must a church refuse to obey the civil law? As a point in practical churchmanship, this question faced 94 bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Manhattan, in solemn session assembled in Synod Hall of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine...
...validity of the 14th Amendment has frequently been discussed as an academic question. This suit, however, marks the first time it has ever been before the courts. Said The New York Tribune: ". . . an engaging attempt at nothing less than the juristic revision of the Civil War. . . . The confidence of these two Southern gentlemen in the Supreme Court is monumental. Not even Mr. LaFollette ever charged that it could remake history...