Word: sciatica
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...final word," said William Maxwell Aitken, the first Baron Beaverbrook, at his 85th birthday party (TIME, June 5). It was, indeed, his valedictory. Last week at Cherkley, his gloomy Victorian estate in Surrey, the Beaver's heart, which had endured so long despite bouts with asthma, sciatica and gout, finally failed...
Burdened though he may be by sciatica, gout, and the cumulative fatigue of the 85 years he had come to celebrate, the feisty little guest of honor stole the show. So forcefully did he define his profession and the practices and crusades of his own turbulent lifetime, that even men who had long opposed him stood to cheer...
...dead to any generous stirrings of heart or mind. He counts the world well lost for money. Skittering about like a drunken sandpiper, Hume Cronyn is a dizzy delight. His Harpagon is a sprite of the cashbox, an imp of interest rates, a tooth-clacking, raggedy-cloaked, stringy-haired, sciatica-plagued witch of usury. As a syrup-tongued matchmaker, Zoe Caldwell steals laughs from Cronyn, and is the yeasty comic find of the company. Obviously, the Guthrie troupe is off to a brave rather than a great start. If a Hamlet of this caliber were to open on Broadway...
...Like Pratt's Healing Ointment, it was "for Man and Beast." Clark Stanley's Snake Oil Liniment was promoted by the slaughter of hundreds of rattlesnakes at the Chicago World's Fair, but contained no rattlesnake oil. "Used external only," it was for "rheumatism, neuralgia, sciatica, lame back, lumbago, contracted muscles, frost bites, chill blains, bruises, and sore throat...
...Harvard, he injured his spine, and in the Pacific, during World War II, he picked up malaria. When his PT boat was rammed and sunk by the Japanese destroyer Amagri, Kennedy was flung violently to the deck, and his old back injury was aggravated, causing spinal muscle spasms and sciatica...