Word: surfeit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite this trite ending, Gable and Miss Gardner combine to make Lone Star entertaining even for those suffering from a surfeit of Westerns. Also at Loew's Louis Haywood staggers through a conventional horror-thriller, The Son of Dr. Jekyll...
...highest farm incomes in Canada, based on record-price crops. The whole rich province seemed already on the crest of prosperity when the oil boom struck. To Alberta's farm folk, a God-fearing collection of Baptists, Mormons and other practitioners of strict oldtime religion, the surfeit of bounties was a well-deserved miracle...
...have been right in his interpretation of the election in California (where left-leaning Jimmy Roosevelt was also overwhelmed by Governor Warren), but his conclusion did not necessarily fit the election results across the nation. They were more nearly an expression of annoyance at the Fair Deal, a surfeit of Democrats and their ways, and a general sense of being put upon. Voters on the whole decided they preferred Senators with independent minds to stooges of the Administration or of labor bosses...
Edmund laughed at Gloucester, saying! "This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune-- often the surfeit of our own behavior--we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars." Those who subscribe to "Reducators" may be as confused in their thinking as Gloucester, but it's not so easy to laugh at their excellent foppery...
...plain that the artistocratic Richardsons had run their course. When daughter Caroline suddenly married Jim Conway, a poor-but-ambitious townsman with super sex appeal, it seemed like a signal for the whole family's disintegration. Then old Mr. Richardson died ingloriously in a hotel room from a surfeit of food, drink and women. He left just enough money for beautiful Mrs. Richardson to keep the fine old house and her social prestige, and to send young Percy and Byron to the University of Virginia. While Jim piled up a fortune in oil, handsome Percy Richardson went...