Word: badness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...limerick is on the front cover. The best advertisement is on the back cover. The best poem is Colonel House's auto-eulogy. The best joke is the one about the inebriate and the soap advertisement. As the drug clerk said of the seidlitz powder, it isn't half bad...
...feeling from coming elections is no unmixed blessing. There are partisan elements in all elections which we would have permanently discarded, but the party system itself is a source of strength in a democracy and one which should not be tossed aside lightly. If the party system is a bad thing in time of war, it is just as pernicious in time of peace. The character of candidates ought to be a consideration of importance, but it does not mean obliteration of parties. Of course, all platforms will be American. They will be composed of one big plank--Victory...
...called "Charlie." The hero is a brutish boxer led to ruin by "a all slim dark-haired figure of a girl" whom he murders in a terrific final melee. The story is so formidable that few would penetrate it. The style is excessive in adjectives, adverbs, "color." and bold bad phrasing--at times a debauchery of words. Yet the author gives hints of power...
...horror's head horrors accumulate." In this age of insurgence social and aesthetic it is natural for them to seek novel effects for novelty's sake, preferring a bad new use to a good old one, just as vicious people crave new sensations. With due allowance for these tendencies of youth and of the decade, this number of the Advocate is creditable; its ambitions are worthy; its attainments are not mean; and it is much better than some of its predecessors. L. B. R. BRIGGS...
This afternoon the men of Military Science 2 will engage in the first outdoor engineering work of the year, when they accompany Lieutenant Morize to the Fresh Pond Sector in order to renovate the trenches, which are in bad shape after the winter months. The platoons will assemble in line, under arms, on the east side of University Hall facing the building, at 2.30 o'clock. Upon their arrival at the scene of action, the men will be divided into eight sections and assigned to different parts of the line for duty...