Word: codger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Interviewed in Florida, Singer Pat Boone, sometime lay Church of Christ preacher, allowed that show business is a fine calling for an old (24) codger like himself, but "I wouldn't recommend it for young people-especially girls. If they have a very special talent, maybe...
While an aroused codger made news by bopping a detractor of the Queen (see FOREIGN NEWS) because, he said, Prince Philip was in no position to thrash the bounder himself, the prince collected a few headlines on his own. At Arundel Castle in Sussex, he captained a cricket team during a charity match, let a hot liner bounce off his chest for what the Americans would call an error, saw his players fight to a draw with the Duke of Norfolk's team. At Cowes, on the Isle of Wight, he raised eyebrows by having a drink with...
Gene Lyons makes the role of James wholly believable and he picks up his cues with model alertness. Edward Finnegan's Dr. Baston is a delightfully sympathetic old codger--a carefully filled out characterization. Robin Morgan sparkles impeccably as the perky, mischievous and not always truthful adolescent, Anne...
...take the most measured and courteous exception to your paragraph about me and my partner Charles Clegg in your People section [Feb. 27]? Not the part that says I am an old codger, a boozer, and no-gooder, all of which is doubtless too true. The private car Virginia City is not, however, my car. It belongs jointly and in equal partnership to Charles Clegg and Lucius Beebe, and I would be indebted to you if, in the private car dossier in your library devoted to such matters or to me and Mr. Clegg against our ultimate obituaries, you made...
...wants to go on the stage--against, of course, her father's wishes. Miss Gordon's successful career in the theatre testifies to which will prevailed. As the father, Spencer Tracy plays himself more often, and probably more effectively, than he does the domineering, soft-hearted codger the play requires. Jean Simmons, in the title role, experiments with a unique accent: partly British, partly what she has been told was authentic for Wollaston, Mass...