Word: civility
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...colors pass, but I would not be happy in my official capacity if I did not do it. . . . I have concluded recently that about the dearest picture of the flag-we shall not see it long-is when it is presented or carried by the old veterans of the Civil War. You know, had it not been for them there would not be 48 stars glistening in the field of blue...
...there is a conspiracy in Great Britain and America to make the United States again part of the British Empire." Mr. Hirshfield points to eight histories which he describes as British propaganda, designed to belittle patriots of Revolutionary days and to show " that the American Revolution was merely a civil war between English people on on both sides and their German King." Institutions formed to improve relations between the United States and Great Britain are a special point of attack in Mr. Hirshfield's screed...
...international market as well. The Exchange became in time very particular as to the sort of securities which it allowed to be sold upon its floor. Accordingly another security market became necessary, where issues not " listed on the Exchange " could be dealt in. This need was supplied during the Civil War by an open-air market which assembled daily in Broad Street, and which, with its finger signals and turbulent excitement, was for years one of the sights of New York. Because of its open-air character, this " Curb Market," as it came to be called, utterly lacked the severe...
...promising. Twice he attempted to conduct a local store only to have the enterprise come to a hopeless end in a few months. Goodyear tried one experiment after another before he lit upon the method of treating rubber that has made it one of the essential substances in the civilization of the present day. Captain Mahan applied to one publisher after another to print his book on the "Influence of Sea Power on History", but all in vain, so that he was on the point of giving up the attempt, when Parkman, it is said, persuaded Little, Brown and Company...
SEVENTH HEAVEN?The Bowery of Paris reflected in the mirror of Romance, where a " very remarkable fella" (George Gaul) wins a "yellow haired wife" (Helen Menken). A new actor, the World War, takes the same old thrilling part that the Civil War played in the melodramas of 20 years...