Word: nonagenarians
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When Thomas Mann's first great novel, Buddenbrooks, was published in 1901, there still lived in Germany a nonagenarian schoolteacher who had talked not only with young Leo Tolstoy, but with old Goethe himself. Mann, who has published 36 books in his 72 years of life, cites this old schoolteacher as the 20th Century's last physical link with the great world of Goethe, Beethoven, Mozart. But he does not suggest that that world's principal literary descendant today is Thomas Mann himself...
Statistician. In London, Dr. Claude Baker Gabb spent 30 years collecting statistics on nonagenarian deaths, then died...
...awakened at 4 a.m. He sleepily rose from his prison cot, donned his seven-star uniform, shuffled into the hushed courtroom. Nonagenarian Marshal Henri Philippe Petain sat nervously at first, then fell into a half-doze...
...Nonagenarian Marshal Pétain, who had dozed through much of the testimony in his behalf, suddenly sat up straight...
...veterans huddled around a radio in Soldiers' Home, Atlanta, Ga., listening to the news. White-haired Major General Henry Taylor Dowling, who had fought with the First Florida Infantry, sat stiffly erect and announced: "The Georgia Division of the United Confederate Veterans is at war with Japan." Four nonagenarian heads nodded in fierce agreement...