Word: epicurcan
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...Jamaica Inn," Laughton is an epicurcan squire who supports his expensive tastes by wrecking ships and plundering them. His finery does not smother his heartiness, and he has some rich speeches about his own good taste and the inequality of man. Content here is in the pure wonder of a brimming glass of brandy. For his associates, Laughton has only his half-lidded contemptuous glance and a derisive sneer: "there is no one like me." He was right...
...come and gone, and now it seems likely that no more than the usual number of people will starve this winter. But even at the height of the teamster troubles, no breath of famine touched the Copley-Plaza Hotel. Daily its massive menu continued to run the gamut of epicurcan delights. With this fact in mind, a Harvard Sophomore recently took a visiting aunt to dinner there...
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