Word: falstaffian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Barton Townley, 34, is a rich Englishman with a Falstaffian laugh and a weak heart. Because of the heart, his doctor advised him to give up golf and rugger. So Townley, having studied the racing sheets as well as law at Cambridge, bought some race horses. Last week, at Newmarket, his weak heart thumped and bumped under a strain that might have told on stronger...
Traubel's and Melchior's relationship is Falstaffian. In Die Walküre, when Traubel is left alone on stage, Melchior sometimes prances about the wings as a Rhine maiden in a grass skirt, to try to make her laugh. Once, when she leaned tenderly over his body on the couch in the last act of Tristan, in the scene where Tristan dies of wounds inflicted by a jealous rival, Melchior muttered: "Helena, hurry up the Liebestod (love death). I'm hungry and I need a beer...
Jose Iturbi's Falstaffian zest does not begin or end with music. He has logged 1,400 hours as a pilot, over 20 years as a topflight pianist, thousands of miles as a motorcyclist, and hundreds of rounds as an amateur boxer...
Died. Will Thorne, 88, Falstaffian British Laborite M.P. for 39 years, who spiced debates in Commons with protesting blasts on a football referee's whistle and stentorian encouragement (e.g., to Lady Astor during a hot discussion: "Stick it, lass, stick it!"); in London. A barber's assistant at six, he never had a day's formal education, believed firmly in marriage (when remarrying at 72 he explained: "I've had three wives and they were all jolly good ones"), once averred that a sensible Frau could keep even Hitler out of mischief...
...might have hit like a bolt from the blue. For the plan asserts that the Federal Government must rely mainly on individual-not corporate-income taxes for the minimum $16 to $18 billion of revenue needed in the first peacetime year. But Economist Beardsley Ruml had scooped C.E.D.-the Falstaffian treasurer of R. H. Macy & Co. had bluntly said it first in July (TIME, Aug. 7). Ruml had also stated that high corporate taxes were more harmful to employment than high individual levies. But C.E.D. did not care that a little bloom was off its peach...