Word: gourmet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With sausage suitcase, easel and the iron-tipped cane that he bitterly called "my buttonhook," 'Ennry would frequently move into a brothel, stay there several months, painting most of the time. In the mid-90s 'Ennry began to drink seriously. A great artist but no gourmet, he liked to swig a mixture of Scotch whiskey, rum, absinthe and cheap brandy. Paris dandies of his day frequently carried sword canes; the Vicomte de Toulouse-Lautrec's cane held liquor. In 1899 he was confined in a sanatorium as an alcoholic, was led out in the company...
...TIME, Oct. 25, 1937, under "Miscellany" you have an article entitled "Gourmet" and you tell of a Harvard freshman who ate prodigiously. A gourmet is an epicure. The term you wanted is gourmand...
...Hotel Pierre; after a kidney operation; in New York City. Born in Monte Carlo, he was in his youth a close friend and favorite pupil of famed French Chef Auguste Escoffier, lived to become president of the American Culinary Federation, parent organization of all U. S. chef and gourmet societies...
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Before a meeting of the British Library Association, Dr. William Temple, Archbishop of York, recited: There once was a gourmet of Crediton...