Word: centenarians
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...Pashennaya did not have the plasticity that Madame Tchekhova could have brought to it. The remarkable thing about the Moscow Art Theatre Company is that the minor characters as well as the principals stand out as finely etched character studies. The Golub, Junior, of Alexei Grizunoff, and the garrulous centenarian of Mikhail Tarkhanoff were typically finished minor parts...
...great distinction to remain active at eighty and the centenarian overlords us all. But such supremacy will be seriously questioned by a horde of modern Methuselahs if one can ward off the most incurable diseases with poison gas, be revivified in one's failing years with fatigue antitoxsin, and be kept alive to see the turn of the tenth century with adrenalin...
...colony there. Apropos of the landing, Mr. Deane gave an interesting sketch, how the tradition about Plymouth Rock was handed down. The tradition, it seems, first found its way into print in 1774 through the Old Colony Society of Plymouth. The society got the story from a centenarian who was then in the neighborhood. This man, in turn, got it from an intimate of his, a centenarian of the proceeding generation, and he being born in 1631, got it direct from the Fathers themselves...