Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hearty food for nearly fourteen hours are not prepared to endure such a shock so early in the morning. The best way is to dip a towel into cold water and then rub the body briskly. This has the effect of a tonic upon the system, without producing any bad results...
...Majesty Myself," in the Boston Post says "it was Mr. Boucicault who told Oscar Wilde how to treat the 'bold, bad men' of Harvard, who would fain have broke up the poet's lecture, and for which exploit Oscar has been so much applauded...
...trace the source of the various impulses and reactions that mark English literature in the last century, and to show that they were only manifestations of a general development common to all European nations. Critics hitherto have been satisfied to point out wherein they deemed a book good or bad. It is now hardly too much to hope that they may find it work profitable to show why a writer is what he is. Mr. Perry's book, although of deep value to the reflective student, will be found - especially in its examination into the origin of the English novel...
...recent discussion in the Nation, carried on also to some extent in the outside press, it cannot be said that on either side it was particularly edifying. The question at issue seems hardly to have been touched upon at all with much seriousness. Indiscreetness, painful bad taste and ill-disguised intolerance would seem to have been the chief characteristies of the several articles discussing the question. Of the amenity and sweet reasonableness, such as we should hope to see in such a debate, there was apparently none. In view of this it can hardly be said that further discussion...
...Sargent in his lecture on "Training," at Union Hall, Boston, last week, said, that not only had overwork a bad effect, but nervous exhaustion was quite as bad, and it was on account of this latter that the difficulty in regard to the university boat race had been so long unsettled between Harvard and Yale, as, if all preliminaries of the race were not settled before the day of rowing, it would tend to a nervousness which would probably effect the result. As regards food, Dr. Sargent said he would give a man to eat what his natural appetite craved...