Word: greybeard
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...many months it was held by the Theatre Guild as a vehicle for their favorite actress, Helen Westley. Margaret Wycherly plays the part in the present production with quavers and acidity admirably suited to the crone. Whitford Kane is somewhat less successful as the old taxidermist, who is a greybeard Pollyanna. There is also a girl who is deceived by a strutting young musician and a serenely suffering mother. All these combine in what might have been an excellent study of mediocre domesticity had it not been so wearisome with words...
...greybeard Republican strategists considered long. They had to select a temporary chairman for their National Convention. With the position goes the honor, the duty of making the keynote speech. The eloquence of Charles E. Hughes was tempting. But there was a greater consideration: The West, or at least the Middle West ought to be recognized. So the choice fell to Theodore Elijah Burton, of Ohio, now Representative, onetime Senator (TIME, April 21). Mr. Burton is not spectacular but he is substantial, honest- in keeping with this year's Republican virtues...