Word: bilious
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General Charles G. ("Hell and Maria") Dawes: "I told the Union League Club of Chicago that in, the last ten years there have been more demagogues in Congress than ever before. So The New York Times said I was 'inclined to take too bilious a view of things...
...singing among undergraduates, has been received here and there with incredulity. But now, in the "Harvard Song Book", compiled and published by the Glee Club, we have physical proof that the Club is not indifferent to college singing as that term has usually been understood. The critic would be bilious indeed who would not congratulate the Glee Club on its achievement...
...humour and its derivation. It was derived from the Latin root meaning moistur and during the Middle Ages came to be applied in the plural to the moistures or juices which on old medical authority made up the constitution of a human being, as bile or phlegm. So a bilious or phlegmatic humour came to mean a certain character or state. This was the sense in which Jonson used "humour," in the play "Every Man out of his Humour...
...hours devoted to work and sleep is of the first consequence, and can best be attained by the use of open fireplaces instead of the usual furnace, which rarefies the air to an injurious extent. Plenty of exercise in the open air in agreeable company will prevent the bilious headache and mental depression which interfere so often with the usefulness of professional men. Above all, intervals of complete rest, combined with change of occupation, such as the cultivation of flowers, or similar pursuits entirely foreign to the regular employment, will enable a man to accomplish far more than would otherwise...
...supposed, one can hardly do better, I should think, than 'follow nature' as to what one drinks and its times and quantity. I suppose most young people could do as much without wine as with it. Real brain work of itself, I think, upsets the worker and makes him bilious; wine will not cure this, nor will abstaining from wine prevent it. But, in general, wine used in moderation seems to add to the agreeableness of life - for adults, at any rate; and whatever adds to the agreeableness of life adds to its resources and powers...