Word: flagrantly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...other point which the writer of the communication touched upon deserves consideration, although not such flagrant examples of this fault as of the other have come to our notice. But certainly if there are men who are tempted to make the struggle about the Tree an occasion for settling old scores, they should learn to choose some other place to do their fighting. The object of the tree exercises is to get the flowers, not to mutilate the next man, and the exercises ought always to be kept within gentemanly bounds. A certain amount of "scrapping" is, as the writer...
...this in spite of the declaration that Republican promises were to be fulfilled without regard to the attitude of Democratic administration. He praised Secretary Tracy's reform in the navy yards, but showed that it had not received President Harrison's approval. In conclusion he pointed out the flagrant abuses of civil service reform principles in the case of the demands for subscriptions upon office-holders made by the managers of the Ohio campaign and approved by McKinly, the eloquent upholder of civil service reform in Congress...