Word: weaknesses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...London" will hold the boards until further announcement. Although some very pretty scenery is shown, the poor acting spoils the representation completely. Nor do we agree with the press notices that it is the most powerful of Mr. Sim's melodramas. We think it, on the contrary, very weak in both dialogue and action, although the greatest efforts have been made to cover the defects of the former with the extravagance of the latter...
...characteristics of impulsiveness and fire that make it youth, then perhaps this good, kind preacher may tell us that we would be better, purer and more fitted to wear the augelic wings if we would only let "exalting, refining womanhood stand by our side to aid us in our weak moments," to use his own language, but he must remember that the millenium is not yet here...
...hundred tongued volubility to comprehend and define this sky scraping aestheticism, this water-logged, wet chicken, Dircaean-swan-ism; this mental somnambulism, that dares everything and is conscious of nothing; this yellow sunflower, frilled shirt, plastered hairism! Shade of John Gilpin! Is this dilute extract of rose water and weak bombast, this white livered sentimentality, the consummation of our boasted modern culture? We are humbled in sack-cloth and ashes. We only hope that in edging his way into fame, Mr. Wilde will not dislodge from their niche of honor any of the old worthies we have been accustomed...
...tobacco is a serious evil. If used at all freely, it most certainly shortens life; and when taken by the young (and boys who are scarcely more than infants are now seen with cigarettes), it prevents full development and dwarfs and twists the whole nervous system. In this weakness the heart shares, and many a weak and trembling heart, which finally stops for very weariness, owes its weakness to this powerful and deadly nervine. It does not kill at sight, but, none the less, it does harm. A monkey will eat tobacco with impunity, but it does not follow that...
...with "Physical Examinations." He insisted on the necessity of physical training, and then explained in detail his system of physical examinations and measurements, by which he was able to prescribe special exercises for each individual, which would strengthen a man's physique in those points in which he was weak. Different persons needed different treatment, and in our gymnasium are machines of all kinds (principally of the doctor's invention) which are adapted for every physical detail. The doctor gave the weights and measurements of some of our notable athletes, and showed the substantial benefits of athletic training. This lecture...