Word: affected
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...London, there was much dispute as to which of the two made the best Romeo. Mrs. Siddons, who was playing Juliet for both, was appealed to, and this is how she answered: "It is very difficult for me to decide, but I will tell you how they both affect me. In the balcony scene, when Garrick is making love as Romeo, he is so eager and ardent that I am afraid every moment that he will leap and jump up to me. When I act with Barrie he is so fascinating that I am afraid every moment that I will...
...success of Japan is certain to affect our relations in the Pacific vitally. Our chief competitors at sea for a century have been the little islands across the Atlantic and here we have similar competition growing up in three small islands across the Pacific. For the honor of this country, it is to be hoped that we may acquire dominion over the Hawaiian Islands as an offset to the Japanese hold on Corea...
Willis Howard Butler of New York City opened the debate for Princeton. The speech was introductory and the different interpretations of the question were discussed. The true construction being clearly defined, Mr. Butler pronounced the question a purely hypothetical one which did not affect the form of republican government. He then touched on the present evils and presented the present low state of city government as a question requiring solution...
...does not mean that no such amendment should be attempted: far from it. Much may unquestionably be done by a strict enforcement of more severe rules, to prevent the recurrence of the most objectionable features of ungentlemanly football. The fear of penalties will prevent overt acts; it will not affect in the least the spirit which inspires the acts, and which must be killed if football is to live in the esteem which the game deserves...
...against all this it might be urged that such secrecy in regard to the crew will not affect Yale's movements in the least. Again, it may be submitted that the absence of any news concerning the coming out of any new men to try for the 'varsity, or of the shifting of the order of the crew, shuts off the whole institution of rowing from the eyes of the University and from popular opinion and enthusiasm; that our crew is no longer a University organization, in the success of which we all feel a personal interest. It is instead...