Word: trencherman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wise and witty pedant: a lover of Greek verses, a professor of rhetoric, a biographer of Beethoven. He was the rotund trencherman: in the piping days of peace, he lunched on soup, a couple of trout, a partridge, vegetables, dessert, cheese and two bottles of Burgundy. He was a Gallic sentimentalist: cartoonists loved to draw him as a transparent body with half-a-dozen hearts. In politics he stood left of center, where the heart belongs, the leader of the Radical Socialists. In statesmanship he fell heir to Briand's mantle; he preached the gospel of a United States...
After a harrowing experience working as a rivet-boy in a shipyard, living with a wicked relative, Orphan Chisholm is rescued by horse-faced Aunt Polly. With her Irish saloonkeeper brother, a bluff, generous trencherman ("Now, Polly, our friends' stomachs will be thinking their throats is cut"), Aunt Polly brings Francis up, sends him to Holywell Catholic College...