Word: surfeits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sensitive dentist's lot is not an altogether happy one. He suffers an alternate surfeit and famine of affection. Sitting in a dentist's chair seems to make some women grow embarrassingly amorous. And, in his professional capacity, almost nobody else loves the dentist...
Seven cats on the top floor of Boylston Hall are at present the objects of an exhaustive research by W. A. Bausfield 4G, who is constructing graphs on the tentative tastes, consuming capacity, and final surfeit of these felines. Two CRIMSON reporters viewed the experiment yesterday...
...coming to Boston. Some are intended for the French-speaking and German-speaking population of Boston, while others transcend the language of their origin and recommend themselves to any intelligent audience. Such a film is "Das Lied vom Leben," with which the Fine Arts Theatre is relieving that vacation surfeit of Hollywood happy-endings and Grand Rapids repartee...
...Vagabond is low in his mind; a situation which is exceedingly serious in the case of one whose eyes are habitually fixed on the furthest nebulae. His present intellectual depression is the result of a surfeit of extreme contrasts, a diet upon which he has subsisted entirely since returning to Widener's profound shades...
...only hope is to be ourselves and circulate the impression that we have put on the pretense of being gentlemen from sheer surfeit with the things of this world. After all, we owe it to coming generations of Dartmouth men to preserve the world's illusion concerning them. We must save them their birthright. We can't eat a mess of pottage and have it too. The Dartmouth...