Word: glutton
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...bristling with irritating and inaccurate generalities. Mr. Winer may have made a long study of Romance Literature, as the editor insists, but it has yielded him little, and one fears that English composition escaped his schedule, however gruelling to Mr. Winer personally that schedule may have been. Any real glutton for punishment will find that the Hoot has included two dialect stories for his especial benefit...
...called me a glutton," said Lady Strabolgi to The Hon. Mr. Justice McCardle. "As a matter of fact I keep thin and eat as little...
VOLPONE-The career of a Venetian money-glutton in the days before Venice was the Niagara Falls of the upper classes (TIME, April...
...That's their proper fodder!" *The gourmand may be a mere glutton. The gourmet must possess an ecstatic discrimination among foods similar to the faculty of the dgustateur of wine...
...business men are unpopular with Europeans. In this, the latest addition to the Civic Repertory catalogue, a German playwright, Max Mohr, neglecting the scented graces at which his title hints, amuses himself by tossing medicine balls at the ugly face of a U. S. rooney glutton. His satire, which was immensely successful in Europe, is sophisticated and sentimental; it is probable that even the most hardened plutocrat who watches the unfolding of the myth will feel less shamed than delighted when the young lovers, scorning a rich villain's bribe, exit with laughter and on horseback...