Word: pickwickian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clendening had a Pickwickian zest for life.* But bad health and zest do not go together. Last week Health Expert Clendening, 60, convinced that his own health was getting bad, cut his throat...
...Treasury Catto first came into intimate contact with John Maynard Keynes, another wartime Treasury advisor. Chance gave the two men adjoining offices in the old Board of Trade building. To the surprise of all they became fast friends. The gaunt, six-foot Keynes had an unparalleled intellectual equipment. Plump, Pickwickian, smiling Lord Catto had the practical experience which Keynes lacked. Together they made a sure-footed team - Keynes operating in the world of high theory, always able to give three solutions to any problem; Catto insisting that only one could be chosen. When the time came for Britain to propose...
Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood, 62, died suddenly last week. He was five feet high, ruddily Pickwickian in appearance, utterly efficient, unoriginal and orthodox. Wrote the London Economist: "Starting at the Exchequer in 1940 from the premise of sound and conventional budgeting, Sir Kingsley Wood was the Chancellor in office when this country crossed into the land of promise where the nation's real resources and not its money became the basis of public economics. . . ." Mourned Winston Churchill: "We shall not easily fill...
...Every Pickwickian remembers the drowiness of Dickens' Fat Boy, whose master constantly prods him awake, crying: "Joe! -Damn that boy, he's gone to sleep again." Dickens did not know it, but Joe was a victim of a rare nervous disorder known as narcolepsy* (from the Greek narke, stupor, and lepsis, seizure). When narcoleptics experience certain emotions -anger, fear, grief, amusement-they crumple up, fall sound asleep. Less than 100 cases have ever been reported...