Word: trashed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...papers and make them more entertaining than at present. If those not on the editorial boards would only turn their attention to doing something to aid the experions of the editors, there would be less necessity for filling up vacant columns with what to the majority seems mere trash, be it essays, orations or local items of blind import and little interest, though to editors, hard pressed for time and copy, it may seem acceptable reading matter. [Badger...
Pleasant interchange of thought between two journals supposed to be devoted to advancing the welfare of humanity: "The New Haven Register remarks: 'Our Continent is to be moved to New York. New York takes a justifiable pride for being an universal dumping ground for all kinds of trash.' New York is very thankful, however, that Yale College is located in New Haven." - [New York Commercial Advertiser...
...here, Oscar Wilde, you sing trash of the blankest-blank kind, and I know...
...them, or draws high lessons from their imagined actions or feelings, - what more does the true poet? In short, in criticising poetry it is hard to say just where sentiment leaves off, and sentimentalism begins. Many pieces that, appearing under famous names, are extravagantly praised, would be characterized as trash if they appeared anonymously in the corner of a country newspaper...
...room was a fair type of the hideous abodes which our students make for themselves. The signs may disappear by Junior year; a few books which show the inmate's literary appreciation may begin to appear. But the imitation rugs, the walls covered with bad engravings, worse heliotypes, and trash of all sorts, the two sorts of chairs, - the ugly and the uncomfortable, - will remain as before. Harvard men ought soon to realize that a room to be student-like and comfortable need not be crowded, untidy, and cheap-looking, and that a few real ornaments are better than...