Word: mad
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...politics, the heavy physical strain, and the distractions of certain sports seem to outweigh, in many minds," says Professor Hollis in this article, "the positive good that springs from them. This prejudice is, doubtless, based upon the abuses of ten or fifteen years back, when athletics had run mad. Things have changed, however, and the old influences have disappeared. Many practices once thought legitimate have been given up as leading to bad sport, and college boys have begun to acquire consciences both about the time taken from regular work, and about the method of winning games. The deception and brutality...
People who come to Cambridge in June for the most part want to see the University, and not a mad whirl of muslin, and ice-cream, and ivy-orations. The older people would welcome the change, and shall we say that girls would sicken of us in three short days...
...fighting-drunk; and Mr. Roosevelt writes you a letter to call any of us who may have presumed to beg our congressmen to slow-up if they can, "betrayers" of our native land. We are evidently guilty of lese-majeste in Mr. Roosevelt's eyes; and though a mad president may any day commit the country without warning to an utterly new career and history, no citizen, no matter how he feels, must then speak, not even to the representative constitutionally appointed to check the President in time of need...
...programme is as follows: Symphony No. 9, Mozart; Mad Scene from "Hamlet," A. Thomas; overture "Coriolanus," Beethoven; Aria, "Ah! Perfido!" Beethoven; overture "Sakuntala," Goldmark. Mme. de Vere-Sapio is the soloist for the evening. Mr. Emil Paur conducts the orchestra...
...original sin, and no other guilt. Thence they advance into a second circle, at the entrance to which stands Minos, who assigns to the spirits their proper places in Hell. Leaving Minos they continue along a rocky cliff, past which rushes the tempest that carries along in its mad career the sinners that have subjected reason to lust. They came at length to a broad flood, where lost wretches are struggling with the waters, as the poets cross, the sinners reach up imploring hands to them, while the savage boatman flings back those who try to climb upon the boat...