Word: greybeard
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...Appleton. a proper Bostonian of 19 whose wealth and social position matched her looks and charm. His grief notwithstanding, the young (29) widower wasted little time. They talked and walked by the Rhine, Longfellow reading poetry aloud as he plodded along behind her. He was not yet the gentle greybeard whom every U.S. child would associate with Hiawatha and spreading chestnut trees, but Harvard had given him a chair of languages and literature and even by exacting standards he might have been called a catch. But it was seven years before Fanny could bring herself...
...Atlantic City last week, 168 doctors registered for one of the year's most important medical meetings, and there was not a greybeard in the lot. The American Society for Clinical Investigation (research men only) prides itself on its other, shorter name: The Young Turks. When the time came for the presidential address, the Young Turks (and 1,400 visitors from allied medical groups also meeting in Atlantic City) sat back and listened to Dr. William Barry Wood Jr., 42, professor of medicine at St. Louis' Washington University-and even better known to fame as Harvard...
...format, Principles of Internal Medicine (Blakiston; $12) is a weighty (8¾ Ibs.) volume, and unavoidably full of medical polysyllables. But its spirit is light, largely because of the personality of Editor Tinsley R. Harrison and the youthfulness (by medical greybeard standards) of the writing staff. Dr. Harrison, former president of the American Heart Association, is only 50; most of the associate editors and contributors range from under 30 to 45 and the average is well under...
Died. Karl Seitz, 80, greybeard of Austrian socialism, first president (1918-19) of the newborn Austrian Republic's national assembly, onetime Burgomaster of Vienna (1923-34); in Vienna. Ousted from office and thrown into jail by the Dollfuss regime in 1934, Seitz was released after ten months, but did not return to political life until 1945. He spent the last year of the war in Nazi concentration camps...
...beets, tended their barnyard fowl. Plank walks were set on fences above the water. At one place dike workers mended the torn sea wall in the age-old manner. A score of them hauled on the ropes of a leaden pile driver, keeping time to the chant of a greybeard...