Word: eater
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Partly we are quitting because we want to take a long, long vacation. We want to become a sort of lotus eater, at least for a while. We want to see all the warm, azure seas and lie beside them on the white sands. We want to travel to all the continents and to most all of the countries. We want to sleep late or get up early, without compulsion to do either. ... we want to loaf and travel as long as it amuses...
Behold the mighty Englishman! He rules the Indian small, Because being a meat eater He is five cubits* tall...
...usually clean of work. Sometimes he dictates for hours. He does it methodically, seldom fumbling for a word. He used to lunch at his desk, but an attack of stomach ulcers cured him of that. (The ulcers are also cured now.) As a result, he is a careful eater, but smokes two packages of cigarets a day, chews gum between smokes...
...airy villa, with modern bath, electric and charcoal kitchen, and a gallery (porch) with a view of one of the most breath-taking harbors west of Naples, cost $60 a month. For $150 a month the lotus-eater got the sort of house awed tourists peer at in Palm Beach-shady, parklike grounds on the mountainside, a sweeping gallery on which a hundred people could be entertained at cocktails, a tile swimming pool. Often the lower-priced houses had swimming pools...
...Christmas as he has done for decades-eating three big dinners: one each with his 93-year-old mother, his mother-in-law, Mrs. David W. Wallace, 83; and his aunt, Mrs. Margaret Truman Noland, 96. But the President would not need any sodium bicarb; he is a moderate eater...