Word: pickwickian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...acquittal on charges of murdering an 81-year-old patient who had remembered him in her will was followed by his expulsion from Britain's Medical Register for 14 violations of prescription, dangerous-drug and cremation regulations. Reinstated after being rebuffed in two previous petitions, the portly Pickwickian physician will not resume his fashionable private practice, plans instead to do research in anesthesiology...
...watched the wedding of Britain's Princess Margaret on NBC-TV last week (see FOREIGN NEWS), they heard a flow of murmured Mayfairisms that were almost as impressive as the Archbishop of Canterbury's solemnity. It was the sable-tongued voice of Richard Dimbleby, a tall, benign, Pickwickian commentator so unfailingly proper that he all but calls the thing in his hand a Michael. Dropping sterling syllables into the air from his glass-paneled aerie 60 ft. above Westminster Abbey's nave, Dimbleby lived up not only to his reputation as England's best commentator...