Word: nonagenarian
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...such radical legislation, if carried, would not only impair the dignity of that august House (make it a forum of party politics rather than a custodian of national rights and liberties as at present), but would remove a pillar of the Constitution, as well as such hoary Senators as nonagenarian George Casimir Dessaulles, Dean of the Senate, and a most active...
...stature, he was nicknamed "Agnes"?an appellation which clung to him through life. When he was a lieutenant at the battle of Fredericksburg, his sword was cut from his side by a shell; at the end of the Civil War he was a captain in the regulars. A nonagenarian at his daughter's house in Washington, he smoked from six to ten cigars daily...
...cigars daily by a nonagenarian...
Professor E. W. Forbes '95, Director of the Fogg Art Museum, has expressed an enthusiastic opinion of the portrait of President Eliot by Charles Hopkinson, nephew of the feted nonagenarian. This canvass, a reproduction of which appears on the front page of the CRIMSON Pictorial Section this morning, will be presented today to the University by the students in all departments...