Word: trencherman
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...refresh the jaded spirit without being involved in fruitless exercise. Already such an institution flourishes on the other bank of the Charles, catering to the isolated appetites of the Business School, and there is no reason to believe that an undergraduate is in any way a less valiant trencherman. If the University could run an eating place of this type, open, perhaps, from 10 until 12 o'clock in the evening, it would certainly be well patronized...
Penrose ''never married. He never kept a mistress. When he wanted a woman, he rented one-a professional. He scorned amateurism in everything." As a tosspot, as a trencherman he was Gargantuan. In 1887 (when U. S. Senators were still elected by State legislatures) Penrose supervised a 48-hour party for doubtful legislators at the Lochiel Hotel, Harrisburg. ''In addition to other entertainment, the guests were provided with all the food they could eat, all the liquor they could drink, beds, valets, and music. And inasmuch as at no time were all the guests incapacitated...