Word: octogenarian
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Gustav V of Sweden, royalty's liveliest octogenarian and survivor of countless tennis matches, motoring home from a hunting trip, drove smack into a water-filled ditch, climbed out scatheless...
James Clark McReynolds, late retired Supreme Court Justice, was buried in Elkton, Ky., as his will meticulously directed-"westward of the family monument, head near the center, feet away from it." Among the gruff octogenarian bachelor's bequests: $10,000 to a woman acquaintance, $10,000 to a friend's daughter, $10,000 to Centre College of Danville, Ky., to "promote instruction of girls in domestic affairs...
Hidden in a shadowy corner of the Luxembourg Gardens-where children, lovers and park bench sages still hold pre-eminence over visiting statesmen-stands a large, Government-owned bee colony. Its keeper, a white-bearded octogenarian named Ernest Baudu, lectures any stray stroller who will listen on the facts of life, both apiarian and human. "Within each hive all bees are devoted to each other. But when a tired bee drops into a foreign hive," he sighs, "he is immediately asked for his passport. Often, in times of scarcity, a group of bees swoops on a richer hive. War ensues...
Mistinguett, whose lyric legs drew ahs and ohs before Chevalier ever saw a razor, was finally being typecast. The ancient musicomedienne's next Paris show, hopefully titled Life Begins Tomorrow, would show her as an octogenarian...
Many a thoughtful Protestant will agree with John Raleigh Mott, octogenarian Y.M.C.A. leader, that "entirely too many resolutions are being passed by churches [and] denominational bodies." The grand old man of foreign missions is quoted in the Protestant Voice: "This is a colossal escape mechanism. I have on file now 115 sets of elaborate resolutions. Certain bodies meet, deliberate, announce that they have come to such-and-such a conclusion, then they sit back on their oars and do nothing more. What we need is enlightened, imaginative and even revolutionary leadership in religion today...