Word: courteousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Army Ordnance Association's* ninth display at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md., the biggest U. S. demonstration of destructive devices since the War. Bombs dropped and banged. Tanks lurched and rumbled. Field artillery galloped and crackled. Machine guns chattered. Smoke screens fumed. The courteous Signal Corps advised through loudspeakers: "We advise our guests to place their fingers in their ears," but only a few heard, having rammed in ear wadding before the 16-inch chaos was followed by two more convulsions, one from an 8-inch Navy rifle, one from a 12-inch howitzer...
...Courteous centaurs again pranced out upon the smooth surface of In- ternational Field, Meadow Brook Club, Long Island. Thousands clamored in the light blue grandstands. Thomas Hitchcock Jr. smote the first goal and the U. S. team led the British team. Hitchcock Jr. smote the second goal; and the third. He smote five goals in the game; J. Watson Webb smote two; Devereux Milburn, U. S. captain, one. Malcolm Stevenson, fourth player on the team, smote none, but played valiantly. In the seventh chukker he slipped from his horse and lay, a white figure, on the green grass. His knee...
...accepted the thankless job of Governor General of the Philippines. His administration was highly efficient, productive ? though Filipinos clamoring for independence called it harsh. Said Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippine Senate, long a foe of Governor General Wood's administration: "He was always courteous to me. He was a hard working chief executive and always determined in his purpose to do the right thing...
...French Government despatched a courteous summons last the week to arch the arch Communist of Royalist France ? and of the respectively, Royalist editor Leon Daudet newspaper L'Action Française and the leading Communist Deputy, Marcel Cachin. These gentlemen were told that they must at once set a time convenient to themselves to serve jail sentences which have hung over each for almost two years. Since their was crimes were extended by political, French this custom ? courtesy based on the theory that it is foolish to make martyrs out of men whose crime is too much talk against...
...paths of the Soldiers Field diamond. Then the storm broke. CRIMSON fury burst forth with all the tremendous energy of a roused Titan tearing in shreds the bond cast about him by the hands of a pigmy tribe. It even went back and gathered force from the disappointing (though courteous) tie played with the Princetonian cohorts some week or more...