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...always-moving scene in which Mistress Quickly tells of the death of Sir John has been doubly reinforced by the handling of the departure of Pistol and his comrades for war. In Pistol's simple admonition to his wife to take care, in the kiss that Mistress Quickly bestows upon them all--except Nym, who "cannot kiss; that is the humor of it", is contained all the heartache and tears-behind-the-smile that the business of men going off to fight has always been. This scene and that of the campfire on the eve of Agincourt where three Englishmen...
...most moving scenes in Shakespeare, Falstaff was killed off. To replace him, his pal, Pistol, the quintessential burlesque of the Elizabethan soul, was played far down to the groundlings...
...Bull College was put near the tail end, in 59th place out of 60 crews (Trinity Seventh was 60th). When Corpus' Third, King's Third, and Saint Catharine's Fourth, the other tail-enders, got snarled in each other's oars, the coaches began firing pistol shots and Connie began to scream. Her G.I.s, who took her shrieks for exhortations, plowed ahead-and neatly split Saint Catharine's shell in two. Tactful judges looked the other way, marked Bull as "rowed over" (neither bumped nor bumping). At the end of four days' racing, Bull...
Bird Shot. Tens of thousands who saw the mighty hunter slaying stage Indians and popping glass balls with a pistol (loaded with bird shot) were ready to believe anything about him. For two decades Bill crossed and recrossed the U.S., beaming when women swooned at his bearded beauty. When he died in Denver in 1917 he was broke and partly bald, but his legend was unabashed...
Manley, a former Rhodes scholar, howled for a Royal investigation and Bustamante's arrest. Adapting Churchill's rhetoric to Jamaican terrain, Manley vowed that his unions would "fight in the streets, lanes and bedrooms." But pistol-toting Bustamante, who seemed to be getting Colonial Office support, chortled: "They'll get no mercy. They struck against the government...