Word: valetudinarian
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...clef, Davenport-Hines shows the parallels between Proust and his fictional narrator, real figures and the fabricated ones. Born in Paris to a rich Jewish mother and a Catholic physician father, Proust was a nervous, asthmatic child who grew up to be, in Davenport-Hines' phrase, "the most famous valetudinarian in literary history." His mother was his life's obsession. His father, ironically, made his reputation studying emotional disorders. Proust did military service before throwing himself into the Paris salon scene. There he painstakingly extracted every minute detail of his surroundings. As he observed, "The writer, long before he knew...
When last Schneider's Silver Concert Band performed in the Yard, it was Commencement Week and a misty nostagia dampened the valetudinarian playing that marks Herr Schneider's style...
With the air of an unwilling valetudinarian, Michigan's handsome, boot-jawed Governor Kim Sigler got up to speak before the Economics Club of Detroit. Everybody in the ballroom of the Book-Cadillac Hotel knew that he would be operated on the next day for an ailing gall bladder...
...double-play combination was declared officially famous. Shortstop Joseph Tinker (ailing off & on in Florida), 2nd Baseman John J. Evers (bedridden with paralysis in Albany), and ist Baseman Frank Chance (dead 22 years) were finally admitted to baseball's Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. Declared white-haired Valetudinarian Evers gratefully: "That leaves me with no more worries...
...NERVOUS WRECK-Slapstick rattling against the ribs of the determined valetudinarian...