Word: eater
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Positive Elements: Graceful, dignified, modest, gentle, cultured, efficient speaker (pleasing, clear, mellow voice), refined language, jolly, sociable, congenial, cooperative, loyal, teachable, forgiving, hearty eater, thrifty, careful in business matters, optimist, religious, reverent, prayerful, devout, spiritual, pure-minded, faithful in religious observance, Bible student, good moral and religious influence, patriotic...
...table. Duffy's Trouville clutches the beach insecurely, as if at any moment it might balloon, mad with gaiety, into the seawind, and shatter its striped pavilions on the salvoing clouds. Bonnard's Le Palmier is a jungle as gemmed and blazing as the subconscious mind of a hashish eater...
...ejaculated the fire-eater, "Poland has 45 good divisions and will perhaps have 70 in two years . . . 4,000,000 mobilizable men . . . war budget of 750,000,000 zloty [about $150,000,000 or 55% of the budget...
Heaven opened. Arrowsmith had every facility, quiet, no interference. He had Gottlieb and one Terry Wickett, just such a lie-hunter as was Arrowsmith. He raced at his work, struck an unknown germ-eater, "Phage," and paused on the threshold of fame to establish scientific certainty. Came another blow. McGurk Institute, founded to cleanse a grubby name, could not risk loss of publicity. He was ordered to publish his find at once. He refused. A Frenchman found Phage, got the publicity. Arrowsmith was in bad odor at McGurk, even at McGurk, supposedly one of the three strongholds Science...
This time, however, there were no ogling blacks, no steaming coffee, no apples, no diner. What to do? Nurmi's retainers noised his plight about the train. A New York Central brakeman, famed as a heavy eater, sidled up to the famished Finn modestly offered three succulent sandwiches. The engineer gave a bottle of milk, a conductor an apple. Thus was the breach filled. Nurmi left no crumbs. Fed, he stated that he disliked Chicago. He had three grievances: 1) Without notice to him the Coliseum track had been reduced from ten to twelve laps to the mile...