Word: hedonistic
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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Dumpling, 58-year-old Elsa Maxwell, professional party-thrower and No. 1 U.S. hedonist, will "do anything for a laugh-with me or at me." (Once, hard-pressed for a laugh, Elsa threw a banana peel on the stairs, laughed and laughed as she bounced black & blue to the bottom.) But one thing she drew the line at was writing a gossip column. So last week she turned columnist...
...simple man," says Cash, ". . . rarely has any considerable capacity for the real." If the naked struggle for existence is relaxed even a little, he becomes a romantic and a hedonist. He develops a limitless credulity, and begins to "accept what pleases him and reject what does not." In every plantation white these traits were strongly enhanced by the Negro, a champion pleasure man and dreamer. As for the mass of poor whites-locked off on poor land from the plantation world, indifferent to labor-theirs was "a tragic descent into unreality," a "void of pointless leisure...