Word: elderly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before justice of a sort catches up with the feckless Oliver, he either seduces or proves irresistible to: 1) his father's gardener's daughter, 2) a blowzy barmaid, 3) a golddigger, 4) a bohemian nymphomaniac, 5) his elder brother's fiancée. Oliver may be just a crazy mixed-up cad to the reader, but in a fatuously psychiatrical reconciliation scene, Oliver's father shoulders the blame: "I think perhaps you represented to me the little daughter I never had and always longed for." A Sunnylands Granger would have the answer to that...
Back to foggy London after a month of Nassau sun, Elder (70) Poet Thomas Stearns Eliot and his youngish (32) wife (and former secretary) Valerie disembarked from the Queen Mary boat train. "It was glorious there," mused Eliot to a waiting Daily Mailman. "We had the place practically to ourselves. There was some young film star chap. Can't think of his name." Prompted Valerie: "It was Gary Cooper, dear...
...playmaking brought Litzenberger to life. At week's end he was within four points of leading the league in individual scoring. Pilous figures his Pappy Line is still young enough to stay together two or three more years, and the Pappies themselves shrug off advancing age. Growls Elder Statesman Lindsay: "Old? Like hell...
...enemies call him a "religio-politician," while his friends point to the unique problems of a job in which his predecessor went mad. The Patriarch of Constantinople has only the power of persuasion among three others of equal rank, ruling the patriarchates of Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem. For "Elder Brother" Patriarch Athenagoras, 72, adroit politics is the main healing art in a strife-torn church that includes some 250 million souls...
Gangster Arnold Rothstein's life story is the sort of straw out of which psychologists make their bricks. At the age of three, the future "Big Bankroll" of the underworld was found standing over his elder brother with a knife. Asked why, little Arnold said simply: "I hate Harry." By 14, Arnold was making money at dice and poker around Manhattan (to the horror -of his decent Jewish parents) and using it to buy the admiration of other East Side delinquents. In two years he was hiring out his money at 25% a week-"loans on Monday, payable...