Word: dost
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...journalist, Lehane became interested in the flea while in Dublin. The insects' concern was only skin-deep, but Lehane's soon reached the proportions of an idée fixe. In The Compleat Flea, he traces the bug's literary ancestry beyond the Bible ("After whom dost thou pursue?" asks David of Saul, "after a dead dog, after a flea...
...then to Hollywood, the Met and finally Broadway musical comedy, where he won a devoted following in the 1940s (The Merry Widow) despite his unsliceable ham acting and his sliceable Polish accent (he kept his "woice" in shape, he said, with small "inwisible" filters in his nostrils to keep "dost" out of the "lonks"); of a heart attack...
...rewrites the marriage vows: "Dost thou, Algernon, promise to laugh at this woman's jokes, push the car until it starts and bring her sherry in the bath?" She loathes trading stamps: "If I want to buy a watch, I want to buy a watch; I don't want to buy 27,720 Ibs. of self-raising flour and then get a watch free." She loves sluts, and enlists herself bravely in their cause...
...alternately caught in a revolving door and staggering blind drunk out of a bar. Finally he expires, with a line that promises to become deathless. "Now is steel 'twixt gut and bladder interposed." His adversary asks the rhetorical question most often put to Shakespearean corpses: "Oh saucy Worcester, dost thou lie so still...
...robed Prince Andrew Albert Christian Edward, the seven-week-old baby who stands second in line of succession to the British throne. Before the royal family and 60 guests, the archbishop turned to Prince Andrew's five godparents, including the Duke of Gloucester and Princess Alexandra, and intoned: "Dost thou, in the name of this child, renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world, with all the covetous desires of the same, and the carnal desires of the flesh so that thou wilt not follow nor be led by them...