Word: elders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When his two elder boys were asleep and his wife had gone to the cinema, George Ernest Johnson, 40, a major in the Royal Corps of Signals, carried his three-month-old son's cot into the kitchen of their home in Epsom, 14 miles west of London. Dipping his finger in tap water, Johnson made the sign of the cross on the baby's forehead and baptized him David Ernest James. Then Johnson took a flexible gas pipe, put it on the baby's pillow and turned on the gas. When he returned to the kitchen...
Producers quickly soothed theatergoers' fears by suggesting that increased costs could be absorbed in current budgets, without hiking already exorbitant ($9.90 top) ticket prices. But this week, as theater marquees flashed on, ticket offices were swamped with orders, and cabs were once again as scarce as Sunday matinees, Elder Statesman Hart was strikingly pessimistic. "This is a bought peace, on both sides. The issues have merely been swept under the rug. The theater is desperately ill; nobody realizes how shaky...
...alumni showing at the Yale University Art Gallery. Last week in New Haven, the second Yale alumni loan show was drawing record throngs. They were inspecting 265 new selections of Yale art-from a 15th century wood panel, The Betrothal of St. Catherine of Siena, by Hans Holbein the Elder, to a contemporary Willem de Kooning oil, Souvenir to Toulouse...
...would fall dumb when confronted with a telephone, flatly refused to ride in airplanes, insisted that all substitutes for the horse were a danger to life and limb ("They will kill you off! They go like hell, poppity-pop and hellity-scoop"). Like Pieter Brueghel the Elder, whom he admired so much, he filled his canvases with chipper little figures going about their daily chores, drinking their beer, sparking, preparing their feasts-all under a bright sky of perpetual blue...
...Danquah, the recognized elder statesman of Ghana politics, was campaigning for independence when Nkrumah was still an unknown student studying at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. Danquah, a lawyer trained at London's Inner Temple and a sociologist with several books to his credit, brought Kwame Nkrumah back to Ghana to become organizing secretary of the nationalist movement. Nkrumah promptly displaced Danquah as the nationalist leader and, over the years, has nearly decimated the United Party, whose seats in Parliament have dwindled from 32 to 13 through the imprisonment of some legislators and the expedient switch in allegiance of others...