Word: doddering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aside from Scott, the finest acting was by Mark Mirsky and Arthur Lewis, as Gloucester and Kent. Gloucester is essentially a less exalted and more human Lear; Mirsky sustained this perfectly, and managed to dodder convincingly in the bargain. Lewis made a secondary role important with a stalwart, knowledgeable and nicely articulated performance...
...opposed his efforts at settlement of the 1922 railroad strike: "It was a suggestive thing that the railway presidents who led the opposition had their offices in New York City. They have mostly gone to their graves unknown to all the public except the sexton, or they still dodder around their clubs, quavering that 'labor must be disciplined...
...such antagonistic collections" as a "cowardice of curs," a "pride of lions," "skulk of foxes," "gaggle of geese" (which becomes a "skein" on the wing), "exaltation of larks," "murmuration of starlings" and a "rush of dun-birds." (A Liverpool University librarian noted that "clowder" was an obsolete variant of "dodder" and "clutter...