Word: problems
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...dishes is appetizing and varied, from the everyday fare of bread, roast beef and mutton cutlets, to such delicacies as orange soufflee, plum pudding with fairy butter, and frozen peaches. Certainly, after a few such courses, a girl ought to be thoroughly armed and equipped for the three-fold problem of feminine life, wherein the factors are John, Biddy and the contents of the market basket...
...after all the "long communications" the problem still remains unsolved...
...first my active imagination placed before me the colossal celebrity known as the Rev. Mr. Rivers. To him I stated the problem, and he began at once to "orate" with a quick and full-mouthed eloquence...
...vice satiates, when the cloyed appetites and enfeebled powers are no longer capable of pleasurable sensation, then (like the Romans of the Empire who made way for fresh banquets by swallowing emetics) men take to training as a last resource, - as the only means of future enjoyment. Eureka! The problem is solved. Henceforth, it is a disgrace to train...
...music, but if the actors could have trusted themselves to sing, or at least to intone, the analogy of the Greek stage would have been more strictly followed. As it was, the actors said their part and were answered by a singing chorus. We now see what was the problem with which Mr. Paine had to deal, and we cannot deny that he has managed in a masterly manner. The chords which always introduce and those which follow the speech of an actor are well suited to their place, and the whole is not disjointed nor ineffective. On the contrary...