Word: epicureans
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...necessary to add that all present considered the banquet highly successful even though it were judged by Epicurean standards alone? The Classical Club has demonstrated its satisfaction by voting to hold such dinners regularly in the future. Donald B. Campbell...
...Epicurean delights during the football season are usually rather rare. Thrills of the grandstand, the bands, the crowds, to the old-timer begin to lose their glamour after a succession of years. But occasionally the powers that be introduce a spectacle that causes the 'ardents', and who isn't, to sigh contentedly much the same way that the lover of the inner linings of his constitution sighs for his special cheese or fish paste...
...class of football Epicurean bites, this afternoon's Texas game is surely a good example. For one reason, due to the depression and other causes, a goodly number of the Harvard football watchers were forced to spend last Saturday afternoon not in the cool and windy Stadium, but in the doorway of some radio shop listening to the strident voices of announcern of the West Point game. There is no doubt that the voices in their natural state caused silvery echoes to gift through the confines of the announcerial box. Amplified, refrequenced, hoarsed, and allowed to join the Freshmen...
...week has passed since the first Eli finally made his top spin under the shadows of Harkness Tower. And the Vagabond will celebrate the springtide in a more Epicurean spirit by going to the Fogg Museum to hear Dr. Spencer's talk on "Emotion in Fourteenth Century Art," at four this afternoon...
...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...