Word: gout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parrot and a Pomeranian lapdog to write Decline and Fall. He completed it 14 years later, and his success was immediate though not universal. Gibbon swiftly arrived at a celebrity that allowed him to dine with Benjamin Franklin, converse with the Emperor of Austria-and aggravate his own gout. But he and his times were not really in tune. The French Revolution Gibbon dismissed as "popular madness." The 19th century social scientist Walter Bagehot was probably right in judging him to be the sort of man that revolutionary mobs like to hang...
...said local postal officials. The department-store and other ads that offended Staples could not be considered pornography. Chacun à son gout, said Staples, obscenity is in the eyes of the recipient; and he took his case to Washington. He argued: "I consider the advertisements for beds, sheets, pillows, girdles and intimate feminine articles offensive." He turned out to be right. Postal laws do indeed say that the recipient of mail is the sole judge of what is obscene. So out went a federal order to all the firms that had been blithely inundating Staples like any potential customer: they...
Mosley often trivializes history by reducing it, for example, to a matter of Chamberlain's gout or Hitler's bad breath. He also overplays that luxury sport of historians, the what-if game: "If a certain Virgil Tilea hadn't had a large and stimulating lunch on March 16, 1939, Britain and France might not have been at war with Germany on September...
...lazy-brained colleagues the wrong way with his indefatigable insistence on freedom. The audience may color him blueblood and relish his thwarted Harvardian desire to correct Jefferson's English from "inalienable" to "unalienable." And how is Ben Franklin (Howard Da Silva) portrayed? Foxy good sense, a plaguy gout, a dash of smarmy lechery and a few jokes about electricity-that is all one needs for Franklin. And that is precisely what one gets. As for Thomas Jefferson (Ken Howard), he pines for his bride. Only her presence permits him to wield the quill of independence. For Jefferson to submit...
...slept huddled beneath piles of worn-out overcoats on a floor that was heaped to a height of two feet with yellowing newspapers, empty cans, cheese rinds and mice months dead in the traps he had set for them. Troubled with weak eyesight since childhood (and later by gout, malnutrition and kidney disease as well), he stayed indoors during the day, roamed the streets of Manhattan by night, dressed in tatters, often pausing in a reverie to stare at the moon for minutes at a time...