Word: resistive
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...late been amply exposed, it now appears to be the turn of their better halves. Mr. Brock,--like Mr. Eugene Walters in "Fine Feathers," recently performed in Boston,--writes the tragedy of a wife's prodigality and deceitfulness. But Mr. Brock has excelled the professional author, who could not resist the temptation of ruining a good subject by melodramatic treatment. the action of "The Bank Account" is never forced; its characterization, especially of the spendthrift Lottie, is firm and clear; and its dialogue is an extraordinarily faithful rendering of the language of the "three decker" apartment house. The play will...
...begin with God; that is, we must know God. Second: We must understand what is to be overcome. The human mind is like an atmosphere in which both evil and good messages are discharged. We must learn to accept only the good. Third: We must have knowledge necessary to resist these evil messages: "Evil must be met and conquered in its origin, the mind...
...their training directly and indirect from professional players, are constantly tempted to do what they know to be done-- and done without censure--by the heroes of the American and National Leagues. We like to belive that recent Harvard teams, though by no means perfect, have honestly tried to resist such temptations and to play a clean game
...Forestry as a Profession since if one can one should always make some trial of a profession before deciding thereon, is, in these seductive autumn days, decidedly dangerous; but if the moral of the earlier pages of the magazine be well laid to heart, one may perhaps resist the temptation...
...others ought to do so with as large a sense of moral obligation as if it were his own. This may seem a paradox, but it is not. The temptation to be selfish for one's own profit is stronger, but for a good man it is easier to resist, than the temptation to be selfish in acting for the benefit of others. I am not speaking to bad men, to dishonest men, or men of hard selfishness; but to honest, upright and large-hearted men, who mean to do their duty in their day and generation. To such...