Word: gluttonous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mike") Hylan. Dr. O'Shea is kindly, gentle, petulant when criticized, sometimes in poor health and now poor in eyesight. A good Roman Catholic, he often was closeted with New York's Patrick Cardinal Hayes. Superintendent O'Shea has publicly said: "I am no glutton for power." The two men most talked of to succeed him are not so minded. They are Deputy Superintendent Harold George Campbell, a suave, hard-working Republican, experienced in high schools, good friend of President George J. Ryan of the Board of Education; and big, bluff Associate Superintendent William E. Grady, elementary...
...bristling with irritating and inaccurate generalities. Mr. Winer may have made a long study of Romance Literature, as the editor insists, but it has yielded him little, and one fears that English composition escaped his schedule, however gruelling to Mr. Winer personally that schedule may have been. Any real glutton for punishment will find that the Hoot has included two dialect stories for his especial benefit...