Word: gout
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TIME'S editors, bemused by gout, evidently have never leapt walls. In your issue of Jan. 17 you show a picture of Britain's gaitered Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain "leaping" a stone wall. Look more closely. There is a ladder in the right-hand corner. Mr. Chamberlain has climbed up the ladder and is now gingerly stepping off. He is going to land stiff-legged at that. He will probably wryly agree that a leap should be goaty, not gouty...
...Because gout bedded Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain during the recent ceremony at which His Majesty opened...
Confined at No. 10 Downing Street by gout, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain one day last week had Italian Ambassador Count Dino Grandi in for a cozy, significant lunch. Afterward, Whitehall buzzed with rumors that His Majesty's Government were about to permit Generalissimo Francisco Franco to open throughout the United Kingdom consulates flying the crimson & gold flag of Rightist Spain. Same day Soviet Russia hastily abandoned the obstructionist tactics by which she has kept the London Committee for Spanish Non-intervention from taking steps to carry out the famed British "Scheme...
...Yellows!" The British General Election held in the Jubilee Year of the late George V gave such a huge majority to what is now the Cabinet of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (bedded by gout while the King was reading his speech) that His Majesty's Loyal Opposition knew they could make no effective attack last week, proceeded to vituperate...
...clutches again. Wary of all women after that, he took revenge on them by emphasizing women's treachery in The Decline and Fall. But at least one woman paid him back with interest when she told a story of Gibbon, middleaged, burdened with gout and fat, getting down on his knees to a pretty female novelist and having to call a footman to put him on his feet again. Her other story was of the time, in a Paris salon, when a blind woman ran her hand over Gibbon's inexplicable face, backed up declaring indignantly that...