Word: geezer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country squire named Sir Ector. whose proper son Kay is an unamiable toad. Sir Ector wants both lads to acquire a good "eddication." An old "tilting blue," he believes that "the battle of Crecy [was] won upon the playing fields of Camelot." A tutor is engaged-a dotty old geezer with a pointed hat and hornrimmed glasses named Merlyn...
...other children were raised, mostly by their mother; the father ran out on the family when Audie was twelve. The boy quit school and went to work on a farm, and at 17 he enlisted in the Army. The Marines and the Navy had turned down the skinny little geezer as unfit for combat, and when he got to North Africa the boys in his platoon shook their heads. "That's real fresh meat, huh? . . . It's going to take two strong men to take care of him in action...
When World War II broke out, the colonel, then 67, was called back to help harden marines. "Come on, now, kill me," he would snarl unarmed, as they brandished their bayonets. "Why," said one recruit flattened by the colonel's jujitsu, "that old geezer knows more ways to kill you with his bare hands than any man alive...
...another season to the minors (where he could be sure of playing every day) or to keep him on the Yankee roster (where he would run the risk of gathering bench splinters). But with Joe DiMaggio already on record that the 1951 season will be his last ("The old geezer will be getting out. I can't go on forever"), Rookie Mantle was beginning to look like the kid who might be able to pick up when Joe leaves...
...Churchill was born, and stare at the battle flags of his great ancestor, the first Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim's builder. On hand to show them around and plug the sale of a guidebook (threepence the copy) was Blenheim's present owner. "Who's that old geezer?" one broadly accented tourist asked him, pointing to a portrait on the wall. "My grandfather," answered His Grace, the loth Duke of Marlborough, beaming amiably above his Glen plaid jacket and regimental tie. A village caterer served tea at half-a-crown a plate. "I just get a percentage," * admitted...