Word: spleened
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...disillusioned when he visited? Tahiti nearly forty years after Loti. As in his book telling of the marquesas Islands, in this later book there is constantly recurring the note of sadness which is felt by all lovers of the Polynesians when they contemplate the sad remnant of that once spleen did race. Whenever a barbaric people have been wiped out by civilization it has made a sorry, sordid tale; the physical beauty and lovable natures of the Tahitians has made the story of their decline particularly tragic...
...German reparations has marked another victory, not for either of the two nations most concerned, but for England. Premier Briand has evidently discovered, as did Leygues before him, that it is "that indomitable little Welshman," Lloyd George, who holds the reins. The English Premier has digested the warlike spleen of three French cabinets, and seems to be thriving on the diet. The French people, with all their elections, are powerless...
...runaway accident, and was laid up for several; months. On his recovery he returned to the front. By that time he had become as expert and authority on fast planes. On January 5, 1916, he was mentioned in the orders of the day for his daring flying and spleen did work in the field. Soon afterwards he broke down and was invalided. He was killed while testing a new speed scout airplane at the plant of Vickers...
...publish in another column the long expected attack upon eighty-eight for the action taken at their class meeting in regard to the Columbia race. Our New York brethren betray a tolerable amount of spleen, but their arguments contain too great an "element of weakness" to be convincing. They also show considerable ignorance of the science and requirements of boatracing, where the propelling force is manually performed. In asserting that a "crew in proper training and condition should be able to row two (four mile) races on consecutive days," they lay themselves open to challenge. The Columbia men have turned...
...university. Let Harvard men, one and all, prove their worthiness of this confidence by combining to put the law of social contempt and condemnation upon a practice, which has more than once been eagerly caught up by those jealous of the increasing reputation of Harvard to vent their spleen against the university. All would doubtless be indignant were the question made that there is a lower standard of manly honor and truth at Harvard, than at Oxford and Cambridge in England. Yet, unless this practice of "cribbing" or anything at all approaching to it, is promptly crushed out, Harvard will...