Word: surfeits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would probably be unkind to suggest that either the audience at the Yale festival, which for the most part seemed to enjoy all the productions, or those people who selected the plays to be produced were suffering from such a form of confusion. But after three days the surfeit of obscurity did have a somewhat soporific ecect...
Eight years later. Maggie has a daughter and a surfeit of Dexter. Then she meets Ray Masters, a Manhattan adman turned novelist, whose "brown eyes, with their heavy lashes, looked almost boldly into Maggie's.'' Dexter takes the bad news like a true son of John Harvard, and, with her second husband. Maggie at last moves into the New York-Hollywood glamour spheres she always dreamed about. But Ray's reedlike pliancy proves as irritating as Dexter's rocklike immobility. The only way to achieve success, Maggie sees...
...largely Moslem population lives. Pacified, colonized, civilized through 125 years, Northern Algeria is officially a part of metropolitan France, and sends its Deputies to the Paris Parliament. Its approximately one million European settlers produce enormous quantities of the same wine and wheat that Frenchmen already produce in surfeit at home. Result: it must be subsidized from home, to the tune of some $50 million a year...
...Henry I of England died in 1135 "of a surfeit of lampreys," a popular dish in the Middle Ages...
...great because he managed to do everything years before it was done by the person we credit with doing it. Hackney, for instance, out Saroyaned Saroyan and out-Bellowed Saul Bellow, and did it first. "Gutenberg's Folly" is therefore a labor of love: dying from a surfeit of chopped liver canapes, Hackney willed Wallach his wife and his work...