Word: greybeards
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Stowaway in the Sky is no respecter of age. It will enchant moppet, matron and greybeard with its balloonist-eye view of the fair land of France...
Stowaway in the Sky will enchant moppet, matron and greybeard with its breath-catching, balloonist's-eye view of the fair land of France...
...kind of newspaper assignment Gene Fowler relished in the 1920s was to be told by his managing editor to find a deserving old gentleman for a monkey-gland rejuvenation operation. When a scholarly greybeard named Mr. Bacon came into the New York American's offices primed with schemes of calendar reform and admitted, conversationally, to two carnal thoughts a year "at the most," Fowler knew he had his man. He went to a pet shop and procured "a nasty-tempered fugitive from an organ-grinder's beat," though in his columns Fowler called the monkey "Ponce de Leon...
...Hills. The present Sultan, eleventh of his line, is Said bin Taimur, 46, a portly greybeard who was educated at a college for princes in British India, writes precise letters in English on crested blue paper, reads the airmail London Times delivered by the R.A.F., and understands perfectly what oil could do for his depleted fortune...
...Like Russians. Then the real riot started. One demonstrator climbed the flagpole, ripped down the U.S. flag. "Good, good," cried an elderly Chinese greybeard. Bolder rioters stormed into the embassy compound; on their heels came a frenzied mob. The rioters crashed into the embassy building itself, shouting, sacking and destroying. U.S. Ambassador Karl Rankin's safe was hurled out of a second-floor window onto the roof of his Cadillac. Desks, Venetian blinds, papers, files and other office equipment fell in a hail from the embassy window. Secret files and papers were strewn about like wastepaper. Some...