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He had been perfectly healthy until that morning, when he woke with a fever and croupy cough.

“You should see her naked,” General Dreedle chortled with croupy relish, while his nurse stood smiling proudly right at his shoulder.

Ben then shows his vulnerability by screaming like a croupy baby on all the rides while Amanda calmly sits next to him polishing her lip gloss.

It seemed time to acknowledge that in the future, the little girls whose hair we once brushed and whose croupy coughs we listened for would be returning as guests, not residents.

Writers for The New Yorker in the 1930s and ’40s described him as a “Superman of Law” who spoke in a “gruff, croupy, dictatorial tone.”