Word: surfeits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...surfeit of " books about...