Word: epicurean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...throughout Lorenzo the Magnificent: Lorenzo "was perhaps a coward, a man of no principles and very little honor, inconstant, an opportunist, frivolous, and Epicurean. But he was neither brute nor a fanatical hypocrite nor a lecherous beast. ... All he wanted was peace . . . the good things of this world, wealth, and fun and art and love and learning." CYRANO-Cameron Rogers-Doubleday, Doran ($3.50). THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON-Dmitri Merezhkovsky-Dutton ($3). THE PHANTOM EMPEROR: THE ROMANCE AND TRAGEDY OF NAPOLEON III- Octave Aubry-Harper ($2.50). Many U. S. citizens go to Europe. Few know any history except the Anglo-American...
Since 1870, the Lotos Club has considered itself and been considered authoritatively epicurean in personalities as well as gastronomies. Paderewski and Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Mary Garden and Andrew William Mellon, are some of the figures who have been honored, variously, with its cocktails, terrapin and oratory. The senior Oliver Wendell Holmes attended in 1883 and punned for the lotophagi six times in one hour...
...ventriloquism, Judge Ben Lindsay has drawn startling statements from young Cleveland malefactors, and wielded them for his purpose. But the educated youth, fearing the sensationalism that dogs his step, has chosen to be silent. This is no occasion for creating precedent. Indeed, one may believe that undergraduate drinking is Epicurean rather than vicious, that the attitude toward delinquencies of Mr. Duffus' "other sort" are reasoned if not Comstockian. But as far as the fact goes, the optimistic critics must be reminded that three all important factors in the upholding of the old code were conscientious acceptance of conventional morality, religious...
...enchantment and that the European point of view on this particular phase of American politics is due not only to a lack of understanding but also a lack of sympathy. Merely because an Esthonian philosopher is unable to understand why the majority of American male voters den themselves the Epicurean pleasures of liquors is hardly substantial foundation for branding the United States a matriarchate...
...Molnar the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is an old, jaded story, and the fleshpot an older. His successive wives have meant much to him, but so have the enormous slumbers and epicurean dinners which he loves. His selfishness is not the mystic ego culture of Count Keyserling but something earthy, practical...