Word: badness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...strange then that prose preponderated over verse. Satire and cynicism occupied the best poems and the poet became a man about town. Society everywhere was intriguing for place or power. But the influence of the times on literature was not wholly bad, for the wits corrected many gross faults that had come in with restoration, and brought infinite good sense with grace and terseness of expression...
...bad that so well-written and vivid a story as "A Fool's Fancy", by H. B. Eddy, should have such a weak and careless ending. The expedient of putting the outcome of the plot into words adapted to a child's understanding was a happy and effective one, but to end the whole thing in such words was to carry the story to an anti-climax...
Owing to the bad weather, Sever 11 was not more than comfortably filled last evening at the lecture by E. Charlton Black on Dryden...
...great city attracts men of all classes; it draws men of great force whether good or bad because it demands men of force; it draws weak imperfect men because they think that in the cities they can depend on others. Work of most kinds can be done to better advantage in the cities than elsewhere. The problem then becomes not how we can do away with cities but how we can utilize them...
...ventilation in Memorial Hall during dining hours is often bad and the atmosphere toward the end of the hours generally grows so close and hot that it is very uncomfortable for hose dining there. It has been found impracticable to open many of the upper windows because the draft causes the gas to flare in such a fashion that the walls are in danger of being considerably blackened. We understand that the Board of Directors are making efforts to remedy this trouble and we trust that they will be able to do so, and that in short time...