Word: trenchermen
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Colonel Robert T. Barton, Richmond, Virginia Democratic Committee Chairman, wrote Lieut.-Governor James H. Price, Democratic nominee for Governor, begging him, if elected, to appoint to his staff "some trenchermen and tanks." Complained Chairman Barton: "I am reliably informed that the Governor of Kentucky's third team can down in these activities any and all opposition in Virginia. The present staff lacks men who can throw good parties...
...elephant, chimpanzee. On the hillside roam bison, zebra, kangaroo, giraffe, llama, antelope, the emu and the gnu. These are but outward show. Within the palace portals is a treasury of Art that brings the value of their new-found home to $15,000,000: a Great Hall, where 150 trenchermen may dine on 16th Century refectory boards beneath the festal banners of Siena; six Gobelin tapestries which cost $575,000; carved ancient choir stalls; the bed of the great Richelieu for guests; $8,000 vases; gold dinner plates and paper napkins; a ping-pong table of medieval wood; a lavish...
...shouted, "I hate Chinese!" Then he tossed the frightened Oriental down the steps. At a group of Jewish undergraduates he likewise bellowed. They shied away, pretending not to notice Sophomore Clark. The reason for this paranoiac performance: Sophomore Clark was being initiated into Hasty Pudding Club, smart organization of trenchermen, toss-pots and thespians, which each year produces a musical comedy and each year, like almost every Harvard society, holds initiations in which absurdity, and failing that, bawdiness, is the criterion of success. The day after Sophomore Clark's Chinaman-mauling and Jew-baiting, the Harvard Crimson, undergraduate daily...
...contemplate what the effect of Dr. Hoick's words must be upon the few remaining Fletcherites. Unaccustomed to normal mastication, these fastidious trenchermen will swill too much and too abruptly and die off in short order. Not so John D. Rockefeller who, unmoved by fads and always conservative, will continue to chew his food soberly and slowly in a modified adaptation of Horace Fletcher's preposterous method...
...important thing for the present is, however, that amidst all the hurry and rush of the times, there has been one man,--President Lowell,--who has not been too busy to provide for a possible future return to the art of living and eating when all good trenchermen will gather around the ancestral plate...