Word: doddering
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...pearly everlasting, wild madder, bouncing bet, tread-softly, lopseed, dodder, virgin's bower, smaller pussytoes...
...Dodder Bank. When Joyce's Paris patron, Sylvia Beach, wrote to George Bernard Shaw, offering to sell him an early copy of Ulysses, Shaw replied: "I am an elderly Irish gentleman and if you imagine that any Irishman, much less an elderly one, would pay 150 francs for a book, you little know my countrymen." Joyce won a box of cigars on that exchange: knowing his countrymen, he had bet that Shaw would decline. Yet Shaw in another letter refutes the canard that he was disgusted by Ulysses. Writing to London's Picture Post, Shaw explained...
...music again because I can never believe again) at the time I used to meet you, every second night you kept an appointment with a friend of mine outside the Museum, you went with him along the same streets, down by the canal . . . down to the bank of the Dodder. You stood with him: he put his arm round you and you lifted your face and kissed him. What else did you do together?" Joyce had no sooner mailed the letter than he discovered that he had been cruelly hoaxed by the other man: Nora had not been unfaithful...
...aside from Scott, the finest acting was by Mark Mirsky and Arthur Lewis, as Gloucester and Kent. Gloucester is essentially a less exalted and more human Lear; Mirsky sustained this perfectly, and managed to dodder convincingly in the bargain. Lewis made a secondary role important with a stalwart, knowledgeable and nicely articulated performance...
...opposed his efforts at settlement of the 1922 railroad strike: "It was a suggestive thing that the railway presidents who led the opposition had their offices in New York City. They have mostly gone to their graves unknown to all the public except the sexton, or they still dodder around their clubs, quavering that 'labor must be disciplined...