Word: gourmand
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...disagree with him. But I certainly do not and have not shivered because I disagree with such views and I don't believe that other "navy hardshells" have either. About the little dig in the last sentence of your article which reads, "A gourmet who would be a gourmand but for pride in his slim figure, he likes golf, fine wines, caviar." What is the idea? ... To ridicule our next Commander-in-Chief of the Fleet? Whatever the idea, I think what you have said in the quotation above, even if it were true, and it is not true...
Admiral Hepburn was born in Carlisle, Pa. 58 years ago, is the father of two Philadelphia sons, one a lawyer, the other a stockbroker. Since the hard-felt death of his wife two years ago he has kept apart from most social activities. A gourmet who would be a gourmand but for pride in his slim figure, he likes golf, fine wines, caviar...
...happy one financially and his troubles are many. As in the past, he is pestered by a cantankerous customer who comes into his drugstore to buy a stamp; and he has difficulties with a small automobile (an Austin this time). Assisting Mr. Fields is that extraordinary Gourmand Chaz Chase, who smokes and eats a cigar, then a bunch of carnations, then half a dozen packets of matches, after which he licks his fingertips with relish...
...prodigious excitement and complication he seemed to keep a very clear head and came within an ace of being the victor. The comedy element in the guise of Sieur de Beringhen, Gordon Hart, was effective in spite of the fact that his elongated person did not particularly suggest a gourmand. Ernest Rowan as Chevalier de Mauprat was just a bit enthusiastic, but the high flavor of his lines excused that. The person who was in all probability the most consistent interpreter of the play in the terms its author probably intended was Miss Ingeborg Torrup as Julie de Mortemar...
...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...