Word: falstaff
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...opera last week got a new Falstaff-from The Bronx...
After two years of hurling such dusters at his St. Louis radio audience of 1,000,000, Jerome Herman Dean has explained all- in The Dizzy Dean Dictionary and What's What in Baseball. His sponsor, St. Louis' Falstaff Brewery, planted the idea; an adman wrote the book. Despite this hybridism, the result is pure Dean, so pure that Diz threatens to "write another soon." Meanwhile Opus No. 1 has gone through 25,000 copies in ten days...
...gentleman, Dyer had naturally not wanted his name connected with the disreputable world of the theater, so he had Agent Shakespeare's name tacked to the plays. To get a bit of his own back, he satirized obese Will Shakespeare in certain plays, making him Bottom, Falstaff, William the Clown, and once even "a forlorn maid...
...shall have to make up our minds to go on and on at any cost, to reconquer Europe and destroy Hitler there, even with American man power-or turn back; and if we turn back we shall be remembered forever as the Falstaff nation of the world, boasting of a power it did not really possess. . . . In going on we face the possibility of defeat. . . . But to go back is to face the possibility of national death. . . . That is the reality as we see it; that is the reality we accept...
...fateful past and of his own future. He loses it to the sea, spends a life in Sweden in venery, musicianship, the service of a fiend. This section is straight fable, some of it exquisite, some of it embarrassing, from sober Julian Green, as a Hamlet trying to play Falstaff...