Word: gout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This Gilbert & Sullivan admirer and pupil of Franz (Poet & Peasant) von Suppe suffered from withering attacks of gout. In his later years, doctors limited his alcoholic consumption to vintage Moselle...
...William Temple death came suddenly, with a heart attack at Westgate-on-the-Sea, where the 63-year-old prelate was recuperating from gout. He had been Archbishop of Canterbury for only two and a half years. Speculation about his successor, to be appointed by the King (on the advice of the Prime Minister), centered around two names: Dr. Cyril Forster Garbett, 69, Archbishop of York, and Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, 57, Bishop of London. But one thing was certain: there is no one else quite like William Temple in the whole Anglican Communion. London's Tory Times...
...Gout is almost exclusively a man's disease, cancer of the gall bladder almost exclusively a woman's. People who get diseases that are more frequent in the opposite sex are likely to have many of that sex's physical and mental characteristics. The doctors mean no insult by this-they say it is the gynic (female) factors in a man that make him a good physician...
...Park. On warm days he sometimes has a taxi follow him with his overcoat. He smokes continuously, preferring light Havana cigars. He refers to tea as "poison" and says of his preference: "I have to drink a certain amount of Scotch, very much against my will." When his chronic gout once got the better of him in Philadelphia, he had him self pushed on the stage in a wheelchair and conducted the performance while sitting. At one New York Philharmonic rehearsal he became so elated that he fell off the podium into the second violins. "Podiums," he remarked, on recovering...
...conclusion that there is no U.S. restaurant which can provide him with a decent meal. "If I want something good to eat," says he, "I cook it myself." He bathes his Poulet Chasseur and Boeuf aux Champignons in vintage wines. One product of this hobby is chronic gout...