Word: phlegm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second scene of the Adams House Henry IV, a good-sized lump of flesh is discovered slouching on a bench, snoring. It is the snore of authority, rich with phlegm and idiosyncrasy, and within a few minutes after it dwindles into wakefulness there is no question that things will be all right. The lump of course is Sir John Falstaff, in the considerably-augmented person of Daniel Seltzer, and the effervescent Mr. Seltzer is engaged in one of the most amazing tours de force ever perpetrated upon the risibilities of the Harvard community. He shows us an entirely fabulous creature...
...only cough medicine compounded of its 14 medically approved ingredients, works through the upper chest and bronchial tubes to ease that tight feeling, help break up phlegm and wheezy congestion...
Michael Redgrave as the air marshal is just the right mixture of phlegm and haw, and Ralph Truman as the peer is a jowly good fellow. Just right is George Rose, the commercial vulgarian who cons the better man down and then crows most abominably about...
...leader-writers pay their respects to British phlegm amid emergency: "A recent incident at Penzance county court . . . is a reminder that man's mastery of the unexpected is not confined to the realm of fiction . . . The registrar approached the matter . . . in a discreet and unruffled manner. His question [to the witness], 'Are you smoking?' . . . paid due regard to the proprieties of the court . . . Having been answered in the negative there followed the conclusion delivered in unemotional monosyllables: 'Well, then, your head is on fire...
...connotation, and the sound of his words. "Tedium, tedium. . . tee-de-um, tee-de-um," Gielgud muses, and there can be no doubt about what he means and how he feels. Fry makes exuberant use of images, such as this description of a shooting star; "an excess of phlegm in the solar system coursing toward a heavenly spittoon." As Mendip himself says, "what a wonderful thing is metaphor...