Word: churchillian
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...face is grey and his hands are speckled with age now. Heavy, stoop-shouldered, protected even from springtime by his muffler, he is a grandly Churchillian figure on the campus. His music is still spiced with youth and so are his interests: Jazz Pianist Dave Brubeck built such a deep rapport with him that he named his son Darius, and Milhaud occasionally shocks prissy listeners by saying that good jazz can steal his attention from dull classics any time. His youthful spirit echoes especially in his lively Provencal wit. Hoping to end an argument with him, a student once pleaded...
...contest ensues, in which she barters for his body and he gambles to save her soul. On the surface, Milk Train is Flora's story and incontestably Hermione Baddeley's vehicle. She can put the chill of mortality into a sibilant whisper, all vanity into a grandiose Churchillian lisp, all lechery into a creamy smirk. As she coughs, groans and rages about the stage, she is larger than death...
...Beating. Hours later, he was in Monaco's Princess Grace hospital having the bone set by a French surgeon, Dr. Charles Chatelain, and his leg encased in a plaster cast. The doctor said that the operation "went very well," and hospital authorities said his constitution is "remarkable-quite Churchillian." A later report had it that the patient was "quite comfortable, but a bit crotchety." Churchill dined on cold chicken, then smoked a fat cigar with his habitual glass of brandy...
...Churchill walked away from a plane crash at London's Croydon airport. At 48, he surrendered his appendix to a surgeon's knife and, nine years later in the U.S., lost a decision to a Manhattan taxicab, which knocked him down and broke some Churchillian bones. Since his 70th birthday, the ailments have come thick and fast: a hernia operation in 1947, a stroke in 1953 and, two years ago, a broken bone in his back from a fall in his London home. On that occasion, Churchill celebrated his 86th birthday with cigars and-in place of brandy...
Somberly, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan warned the party that the trend "could lead to the return of a Socialist government by the side door." Sir Winston Churchill even weighed in with a ringing Churchillian plea for "a searching re-examination of our policies and great and sustained efforts." The Conservatives are still confident that if they can win British admission to Europe's Common Market, they can win the next general election, probably in 1963. Meanwhile, said one top Laborite, "for the first time, Hugh Gaitskell feels certain that he is going to be the next Prime Minister...