Word: epicureans
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This was wisely said Starting with Anacroon literature is rich in expressions of this Epicurean philosophy Carulus and Omar are exponents of its true value pointing out that the path of pleasure is the sanest and easiest course to follow...
...Arboretum on its hundred and forty acres has shrubs in number and variety sufficient to feed an army of the most epicurean locusts, and grows herbs to satisfy the meanest grub. At Jamaica Plain and in the Forest at Petersham are grown and studied all varieties of North American plants and trees; the Arboretum's annual "lilac week", which is nearly due, brings visitors from all distances; and the display of azaleas and rhododendrons which follows is equally notable...
...side of everybody, for even the waitresses sympathize in his bereavement. It is needless to describe now he ate the shredded wheat on the cob, or the steak, or the jellied egg, or the dessert of pie a la mode, sauce oyster. If one merely understands and imitates the epicurean spirit in ordering, and the knack of turning apt phrases, then one can rest assured oft success...
...bread alone; and on diverse occasions men have resorted to the food of the barns and fowl. Not to mention the immortal Nebuchadnezzar, late of Babylon-on-the-Euphrates, at the pinch of fashion or necessity even civilized man has been forced to follow the example of his less epicurean brother, and subsist on other than the staff of life...
...loking at this dinner is not the spirit in which the football team went into its great game this fall, and we believe that it will appreciate least an over-exuberant reception. Healthy pride leads to healthy praise, which should never be made insincere by violent lapses into epicurean orgies. The spirit of the evening should be the spirit of Dean Briggs' toasts, and praise be to him who rises to them with a full heart instead of an over-full stomach...