Word: blots
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...current number of the Lampoon, which is devoted to football, has more wit and originality than any preceding number this year. But it is prevented from being uniformly excellent by the pointless and offensive looking blot which is entitled "A short guide to Harvard University." The editorials are perhaps the best literary contributions, although the Irishman's point of view in "McGinnis at the Yale game," an imitation of Mr. Dooley, is amusing and ends pointedly. The editorial on the distribution of Yale game tickets lacks the overdone tone of previous ones and is timely, but might be improved...
...White Blot"- The Story of a Picture," Henry van Dyke...
...twenty-eight Romney moved to London and began the long separation from his wife and children which is the greatest blot on his character. The year after he came to London he sent a picture of General Wolfe to the Society of Arts. It was announced that he had received the second prize. At the suggestion of Sir Joshua Reynolds the decision was revoked and the prize awarded to Mortimer. This was the cause of Romney's dislike for Sir Joshua...
...like finely woven silk? The weeds cluster in the patches of earth at its foot, worms eat their way through every splinter, and where some particularly ugly old stump disturbs the eye a little bit of vine peeps gaily over the top and offers its services to hide this blot and leaves at its death a golden patch of color...
...stage, and lacks also constructive power: his plots are strong in general conception, but weak in matters of detail. Mr. Hapgood then proceeds to examine Browning's dramas, beginning with the less important ones and passing thence to those which may really be called acting plays, Strafford, A Blot in the 'Scutcheon, and the Return of the Druses. This last, although never produced on the stage, Mr. Hapgood considers the most dramatic of them...