Word: octogenarian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Percy V. Pennybacker, octogenarian president of Chautauqua Women's Clubs: "While disappointed, I am not discouraged...
...piped Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker, octogenarian club woman: "We are here, Mrs. Roosevelt, a thousand strong...
...Archbishop Hanna and the board went octogenarian Andrew Furuseth who has lived on San Francisco's Embarcadero for more than 40 years, organized seamen, fought their battles and now heads the International Seamen's Union of America. He pleaded with strikers: "With confidence and justice we can settle this strike within 24 hours and without bloodshed. Men, let's get together while there is still time. The only thing in the way of peace now is distrust, one group of the other...
...campaign speech in 1860. Now another tall, bearded man, Robert Fulton Cutting, 82, potent industrialist and president of Cooper Union's Board of Trustees, uprose to warn the seniors to work hard and be modest. Then he started to hand out diplomas. Sixteen diplomas & handshakes were enough for Octogenarian Cutting. Another trustee, portly, erect, broad-mustached and 16 years his junior, stepped forward to take his place. The line of graduates surged up, rippled across the stage. The portly trustee pumped each well-scrubbed right hand, thrust a diploma into the left, grinned, murmured "Congratulations." Each presentation took four...
...widow and sister-in-law, accused of aiding the abduction, came to an indecisive end when a Federal jury reported "hopeless" disagreement after 28 hours. But there are other newsworthy members of the Boettcher clan and to Denver and Colorado the name also means sugar. Charles Boettcher, octogenarian grandfather of Charles 2nd and head of the family, is a founder of Great Western Sugar, biggest beet sugar company in the U. S. Born in 1852 in Thuringia, heart of the German beet sugar country, he peddled hardware in the boom mining towns of Colorado. When he visited Germany again...