Word: gluttonous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reports come from Yale of an ice cream tragedy. It seems that a glutton of the Yale species set out to break the Harvard ice cream eating record. He downed 23 scoops and staggered away with that modest victorious air, only to discover afterwards that the Harvard record was 24 scoops...
Another record for the Class of 1941! Already boasting the champion ice cream glutton of Harvard's history, this year's Yardlings have in their midst the youngest student over enrolled in the University...
...upon him conversationally by his colleagues during the twelve years he served Virginia in the House of Representatives) has been with the State Department only since Cordell Hull picked him to succeed Raymond Moley; but in spite of his 78 years, he has loved his job and been a glutton for work. Senators have been heard to remark that "Judge Moore is the only man in the State Department with any guts." Sumner Welles's nomination for Under Secretary might not have been confirmed if Judge Moore had been passed over...
...Steve Brodie, 23, Bowery newsboy, bootblack and publicity glutton, claimed to have jumped from Brooklyn Bridge July 23, 1886. Evidence persists, however, that a dummy was dropped from the bridge, while Brodie hid on a pier below, and dived in as the dummy struck. His story at the time was believed. A brewery financed a saloon for him. He made stage appearances, flourished for years, died of tuberculosis in 1901 in San Antonio...
...Wild West Show, he records that she was extremely stingy, never took so much as a beer unless someone else paid for it; that the bullets she used in her act were explosive, scattered the shot so that misses were rare. Death Valley Scotty, broncobuster, was such a glutton for chocolate creams that he ate them while his mount was cutting capers. Buffalo Bill stuck religiously to his temperance pledge except in his native State of Nebraska: there all bets were off, and the show, taking its cue from him, went really wild. Cody and his equally temperamental manager, "Arizona...