Word: elder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Announced beefy Elder Brother Herman Frederick Willkie, Louisville distilleryman, of the Leader of the Loyal Opposition: "Wendell's been living'off his fat,' so to speak, and he thinks it's time he started earning some money. At the same time, he wants to be free to speak his mind. He plans to practice law again...
...Problem. While the people sang, General Simovitch worked. Whether Yugoslavia could continue to exist as one nation was in doubt, and that was a risk the tall, grave-eyed General took when he staged his coup. To be Foreign Minister of his Government he picked an elder statesman who had been 17 years out of politics, 65-year-old Momtchilo Nintchitch...
...flat sandbox floored with fine, clean sand, on the third floor of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, squatted two full-blooded Navajo medicine men. The elder, Charley Turquoise, sported a bushy black mustache that belied his 73 years. The younger one was Dinay Chilli Bitsoey, which means "Short Man's Grandson." They were practicing one of the oldest and most mysterious arts...
Editor is 42-year-old Doris Berger, blue-eyed, greying, twice-married daughter of the late Socialist Congressman Victor Berger. Mother of three children, fun-loving, tennis-playing Editor Doris Berger Welles Hursley wrote an editorial "On Being an American." In it at least the elder Dodd might have detected some traces of the kind of Jeffersonianism which he expounded...
Busy in the years before the time he came to the Harvard Club, as well as after, Jones remembers the members of Cleveland's cabinet and the elder J. Pierpont Morgan, well...