Word: effective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...vainly wonder to what occupation he has turned his marked talents to gain a livelihood. He, alas, has missed one beautiful opportunity. We refer to the recent hazing affair at Trinity, which he suffered to pass by unnoticed, and at which he might have hurled, with great effect, the bolts of anathema from his elevated and important seat, and, by a vigorous two-column editorial, have thus once more appeased his fastidious sense of decorum and propriety. What could have been the cause of those frequent and bitter outbursts of indignation and contempt, which we now re-read as curiosities...
...appreciate this fact, and if there is no other way to convince them of it, measures as stern and decisive as the summary arrest and punishment of all offenders would seem to be justified. It is to be hoped that this trial will have the effect of bringing the attention of students to the matter, and effecting the desired reform...
...sins of sectional prejudice and local conceit. That same native vigor and rude energy of style which we found so remarkable in the case of the Review, is equally striking in the case of the Chronicle: therefore we have been led to connect, after the fashion of cause and effect, this mental malady (so characterized by illusion and belligerency), with the spasmodic intensity of style which pervades these articles...
...would think that in this case, as well as in the case of the seniors, that the necessity of signing a statement to the effect that the rooms were drawn for personal occupation, would deter most men from abusing the privilege of transfer. But actual experience shows that it does not. Men do not scruple to sign a lie when it comes to a matter of rooms. They excuse themselves by saying that everybody else does it. Of course I will not attempt to show to what extremes such reasoning leads...
...will not be exacted; whereas, if she plays at the Vaudeville in the autumn, as she has arranged with Sardou, the Comedie will exact the payment of that sum. In any case, Sarah's return to Paris will be a great event. It will be curious to see what effect her travels will have had upon her talent and her golden voice, and whether, as the foreign critics say, she has become Americanized in her style of acting, or her London marriage with M. Damala, a Greek, has made her more classic...