Word: belched
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...come to seem like chains. With its dead characters who are actually alive, its young gentlemen who are really young ladies, its adored one who is really twins, its love-making that is really leg-pulling, the play swarms with rather impractical jokes. Then there are Sir Toby Belch and Sir Andrew Aguecheek, those relentless cutups whom a later age would have relegated to the funny papers. They also have a way of dragging Malvolio-a great comic figure by virtue of being almost tragic-down to their own level...
...York this week. But you are lucky to be in Cambridge. The performance here is no chuke job. The costumes and get are extravagantly eighteenth century, and appearing prominently in gold braid and squashed top-hat is the late W. C. Fields via Jerry Kilty as Sir Tobey Belch. In this Kilty has resisted the case of playing another Falstaff, which he does well, and instead successfully innovates a double impersonation...
Neat clusters of condiments ornament the tables in the quiet, tobacco-free dining room of South Kensington's Onslow Court Hotel. There, in a silence broken only by the tinkle of chinaware, an occasional polite belch or a muffled platitude, retired colonels and well-to-do widows dine in respectable isolation without recourse to spirits. One of these was stately Mrs. Olive Henrietta Roberts Durand-Deacon, a widow of 69. She had few close friends at the hotel, but over a period of three years had struck up an acquaintance with a youngish (39) gentleman named John George Haigh...
...price of 5,500,000 francs ($16,500) was brought by 17th Century Adriaen Brouwer's Peasants' Meal, a scene as vulgar and unbelted as an after-supper belch. Anthony Van Dyck's forceful portrait of Engraver Paul Pontius went for $11,700; Jacob Ruysdael's cold but kindly Winter Scene for $9,600; Jan Steen's low-comedy Effects of Intemperance...
...fort still held out. From his command post Figueres opened up across the city's roofs with more guns than Costa Ricans knew they had. The staccato poc-poc of tommy guns mingled with the belch of mortars and the harsh slam of 50-calibre machine guns. The fort and surrounding houses were riddled. By the time the last rebels gave up, an estimated seven were dead, a score wounded...