Word: tosspot
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...original screen play is attributed to Mahatma Kane Jeeves, an obvious pseudonym to those who know that Fields writes his own lines. His own character-a small-town tosspot accidentally given the job of cop at the local bank-is labeled Egbert Sousé (pronounced Soo-zay). His small town is called Lompoc-a coincidence which may cause some embarrassment to citizens of Lompoc, Calif. When Mr. Sousé drinks a pony of straight whiskey, he always demands a water chaser, which he uses as a finger bowl; with each drink he requires a fresh chaser, because "I never like...
...watching. Doctors sometimes advised Charles Lamb that this eccentric circle was not the healthiest one for a spinster afflicted with intermittent lunacy. But Mary Lamb seems to have felt quite at home in it. At times when she did not, or when Charles, who was something of a tosspot (Mary used to leave his bedroom door ajar so that Charles would not have to fumble at the latch), was reforming, the Lambs would go for a browse in the country. On one vacation they estimated that they walked 350 miles...
...constable one night last week heard a cheerio voice propose: "Come on, let's have one for the road." His duty was clear. He routed out the publican, haled him before a magistrate. But the laugh was on the constable. The voice from within was no after-closing tosspot's, it was Lord Haw-Haw of Zeesen, No. 1 Nazi propagandist to Britons, tossing off a Briticism over short-wave radio...
...viola that was around the house. His father, who was himself a disappointed viola player, strongly objected, set little William to practicing the violin instead. But William never forgot the charms of the forbidden viola. Years later, in Brussels, when his teacher, the late great violinist and tosspot Eugene YsaŸe, told William he had special aptitude for the viola, he switched to it for life. In 1937, when NBC officials were recruiting their new NBC Symphony, they heard a phonograph record of Violist Primrose playing a Paganini caprice. Never had they heard or heard tell of such fast...
Carl Bellman was an amiable, unpractical tosspot who spent most of his life in government sinecures, under the patronage of art-loving, fun-loving King Gustavus III. When the King was murdered. Bellman lost his last job, was put in debtors' prison, got out just in time for a last party before he died. Bellman played the lute, consciously or unconsciously drew upon Bach, Mozart, Scarlatti for melodies. He seldom wrote a song down, let his friends transcribe, collect and publish part of his output. The "Last of the Troubadours" sang of tavern life, of trips to the country...