Word: gout
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...bemonocled Prince Orlofsky, Mezzo Stevens strutted center stage, put one foot on the prompter's box and waggled the holder at Box 23 of the Met's Diamond Horseshoe. Then, as Manager Bing winced in his box, she sang a switch on her song, Chacun a Son Gout...
...fined ?200 and clapped into King's Bench prison for a year. The kindness of his Tory gaolers in permitting him to dine out once a week at the nearby Dog & Duck tavern only served to increase Whig Tooke's bitterness against them; he blamed the gout from which he suffered all the last years of his life on the claret drunk on these outings...
Colchicine (from the autumn crocus, Colchicum autumnale) has long been prescribed in the treatment of gout. It attracted the attention of cancer researchers because it is poisonous to living cells, impairs their power to divide. Most cancer workers were disappointed with colchicine and soon dropped it. But Dr. Hans Lettré of the University of Heidelberg persisted. He extracted N-methyl-colchicamid, a substance which proved to be ten times as powerful as colchicine itself in preventing the riotous multiplication of cells (a characteristic of cancer growth...
...touch of gout caused him to limp a bit as he climbed aboard the train, but otherwise, as far as anyone could remember later, Fish Karpe seemed his usual relaxed and cheerful self...
...full of retired symphony musicians who had yielded their chairs to younger men but were by no means ready to quit playing. Onetime New York Symphony First Trumpeter Vincent C. Buono, 74, and such 78-year-old gaffers as Violinist Fred Schaefer and Violist Solomon Pressman were enthusiastic about Gout-kin's idea of forming an old fellows' outfit. Sixty others were rounded up in no time...