Word: nonagenarian
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...nightmarish Paris last week two aged sisters quietly parted, perhaps forever. Unconcerned for her own safety, but anxious "to relieve my son of all unnecessary anxiety," spry, 84-year-old Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt had decided to cut short her European jaunt. Equally serene, her nonagenarian sister Mrs. Dora...
...Lake Placid, N. Y., at a celebration of his 97th birthday, Negro Lyman Epps stood up, quavered "Blow Ye the Trumpets, Blow.'' Nonagenarian Epps remembered that he had sung the same song at John Brown's funeral...
...Westfield, Mass., Jasper T. Dunham, 90, was hauled into court on a charge of reckless driving. The judge asked him whether he didn't think he was too old to drive. Indignantly replied Nonagenarian Dunham: ''When I went to school 1 learned there was always a lot of exceptions to every rule, and in this case I'm one of them...
...wasted years, the industry launched its fifth annual Life Insurance Week throughout the land last week with a series of "Early Birds Breakfasts" (8:15 a. m.). Local agents collected private and public bigwigs to tone up the breakfasts, put on broadcast after dull broadcast, dug up nonagenarian policyholders as living testimonials, prodded museums and universities to feature the memorabilia of insurance, inspired sermons on the "economic, moral and social values ,of life insurance to the individual and the nation," sponsored teas, dances, dinners, lectures, concerts, fashion shows...
...with incontestable consistency, each was written with undeniable brightness and charm. There is still lots of charm in Blayds, the tale of an eminent Victorian who lived to 90 amid plaudits for his immortal poetry. Unhappily for most of his family, who fed off his prestige and fortune, the nonagenarian divulged at the very end that his fame was due a dead comrade who had written the work and died young...