Word: elder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...uncovers" another manuscript, detailing the adventures of the stately Holmes of England in his struggle against the temptations of "nose candy." He also trots out all the old Baker Street regulars: Toby the relentless mongrel; the world's longest-suffering landlady, Mrs. Hudson; Myrcroft, Sherlock's corpulent elder brother; and Dr. James Moriarty-in a new role as innocent bystander...
...eleven years of exile and "return home as soon as possible." A second call came from French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, placing a French Mystere 20 jet at his disposal, since commercial service to the troubled country had been halted. Within hours the Greek elder statesman was airborne, on his way to Athens. By the time he landed, to a tumultuous welcome from his countrymen, he had been named Greece's new Premier, and a new hope for democracy had appeared in Greece...
...Daddy's elder son, Gooper, is a greedy lawyer slavering to inherit the estate, and is married to Mae, a snotty and equally money-minded mother of an ever-expanding obnoxious brood of "no-neck monsters." The younger son, Brick, is an ex-athlete fallen into alcoholism, who refuses to become involved with anyone, including his wife Maggie. She is thus not only sexually frustrated and childless but, born into poverty, also fearful of losing the wealth into which she married. On the sidelines is the Reverend Tooker, a local clergyman adept at sniffing a fat bequest for a church...
Warren always remembered what it was like to be in the little fellow's place. His father, an immigrant from Norway (the original family name was Varran), was a railroad worker in Los Angeles when Earl was born. The elder Warren joined the American Railway Union and was blacklisted in 1894 when he went on strike. He moved the family to Bakersfield, where he got a job and began working his way up the economic ladder to the comfortable perch of prosperous landlord. But young Earl had a keen understanding of the workingman's problems. As a teenage...
...change is, of course, necessary. Rosovsky's two most important appointees so far--Pipkin and Burton S. Dreben '49 as dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences--were both in the Society of Fellows, an elite group of distinguished elder scholars and promising younger ones, with him in the mid-fifties. They are both scholars concerned about the University, and both are potentially good deans--but still, choosing deans from the pool of former junior fellows won't bring equal opportunity to Harvard, and while junior fellows make for a pool of potential deans of unusual convenience...