Word: surfeiting
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...wide expanse of loneliness to be found in forests and mountains every year draws a throng form the cities. Even the narrow isolation for one's room is sometimes a welcome relief from the competitive chatter of fellow collegians. When melancholy descends upon the soul, whether caused by a surfeit of real suffering, an unlovely letter, or the failure of some finesse, retreat from neighborly jostling often heals the hurt quickly...
...noon there is a surfeit of interesting lectures today. It ruffles a vagabond's self complaceney. Dr. Demos is speaking in Emerson A on "Egoism and Altruism". Professor Edgell in Robinson Hall is going to talk about two magnificent architects, Brunelleschi and Michelozzo, in Fine Arts 4a. In the Music Building, Professor Bill in his course on the Russian Nationalists is to talk about Balakirev, a strange but great musiclan. And then I remember Professor Lake's Old Testament lecture in Emerson D, and Professor Babbitt's lecture on the Romantic Movement in Harvard 6, and 1 give...
...shown more special honor. A special committee of Prophezzors awards to the men chosen a huge brass slab called for some strange reason, a "key." This device is worn in a very showy position just over their stomachs and bears the legend: "Reading maketh a full man. Behold my surfeit...
...conclusion to which the Department came was that the grosser forms of adulteration and misbranding are disappearing, although new and more subtle machinations have in part taken their places?but in general a U. S. man can eat himself into surfeit with less danger from false and filthy food, and 'drug himself out of the surfeit with less risk of repairing straight to his coffin than he could in the years before the Act was passed...
...movement is what its leaders make it. The British Labor Party is still being made. Until James Ramsay MacDonald became Premier, the Party suffered from a surfeit of leaders. There appeared none who had an authoritative ascendancy over the others. Result: the Labor Party became "all things...