Word: surfeits
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...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...
...Gaston is so clearly on the side of the angels that his worst enemy is none of those that Novelist Marshall sets up, but Novelist Marshall himself. In To Every Man a Penny, goodness becomes a cloying surfeit, and sentiment runs over into Parisian bathos...
...surfeit of basketball players are among the Eli outfielders including Tom Redden, Gerry Breen, and Art Fitzgerald. The latter replace the injured .400 hitter Dick Tettlebach in left field, and his rash of extra base hits last Saturday made him high man at the plate as Yale beat Princeton...